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By Dinitia Smith

Based at the lifetime of George Eliot, famed writer of Middlemarch, this alluring account of Eliot’s passions and tribulations explores the character of affection in its many guises
 
Dinitia Smith’s spellbinding novel recounts George Eliot’s honeymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage to a good-looking younger guy two decades her junior. while she agreed to marry John Walter pass, Eliot was once recuperating from the demise of George Henry Lewes, her cherished spouse of twenty-six years. Eliot used to be bereft: left on the age of sixty to consider profound questions about her actual decline, her fading attraction, and the chance of loneliness.
            In her early life, Mary Ann Evans—who could later be often called George Eliot—was a rustic lady, thought of too simple to marry, so she expert herself with the intention to safe a livelihood. In an period whilst lady novelists have been gadgets of ask yourself, she grew to become the main well-known author of her day—with a male nom de plume. The Honeymoon explores other forms of affection, and of the probabilities of redemption and happiness even in a less than excellent union. Smith integrates ancient fact along with her personal wealthy rendition of Eliot’s internal voice, crafting a page-turner that's as clever because it is gripping.

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