I just enjoy Wharton's novels a lot. This one perhaps not as much as The Age of Innocence or The House of Mirth, but it was very good reading at the gym (or would be elsewhere).Basically, a widow (Anna Leath) is getting married to someone (George Darrow) with whom she was in love earlier in life but didn't marry for various reasons; her stepson (Owen Leath) is getting married to Anna's daughter's governess (Sophy Viner). This plays out in a French chateaux that has been in the family of the widow's in-laws. The relationships have some complications. And yes, there is a sort of reef on which the relationships are on the verge of foundering and around which the main participants seek to steer. The ending is nice and ambiguous.
Wharton has an unusually good feel for how people think and speak. Which I think is helpful as we look at our own behaviors . . . but who knows. In any event, it is much enjoyable to read.
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