The Chastened Heart

When Professor Alice Prescott writes a best-selling novel based on her passionate, once-troubled marriage to journalist Tom Winslow, the couple’s quiet Connecticut life is shaken by more than bad memories. Th e past itself returns, as if beckoned by Alice’s book. Now, the Winslows learn what their unyielding love has cost them--and others.

Th e Chastened Heart is a novel of middle class American and European manners, satirical yet compassionate, realistic yet committed to the spiritual and ...