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Good Things I Wish You. By A. Manette Ansay. 272 pages. Harper. $25.99.
Good Things I Wish You
by A. Manette Ansay
Summer romance and mystery all in one.
Just in time for the beach, Good Things I Wish You is the story of two summer romances—separated by 150 years. A. Manette Ansay, author of Vinegar Hill, tells the story of Jeanette Hochmann, a divorced novelist who’s looking for love. But she’s not looking where you’d expect: She’s scouring history for clues that Clara Schumann—wife of composer Robert Schumann—had an affair with her husband’s protégé, Johannes Brahms. Complete with photographs, sketches, and notes, the book details Jeanette’s new discoveries of an oft-studied love triangle. But life does tend to imitate art, and as Jeanette studies the details of the Schumann affair, she finds that her own life parallels that of her protagonist.
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