Tenderness

What a triumph of skill and imagination is this powerful, moving, brilliant novel! Ive never read anything quite likeTenderness, and I doubt I ever will again.Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author ofCity of GirlsandEat, Pray, LoveFor readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterleys Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it will be censored. He publishes it privately, loses his copies to customs, and dies bereft.Booker Prize-longlisted author Alison MacLeod...