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Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer season of 1957 and begin a a friendly relationship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and keen; Frances, the precocious child of an middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts off as an exploration of trust eventually becomes a relationship, a development complicated by Bernard's get caught in manic major depression and Frances' battle to decide whether she is strong enough to weather the illness with him for the future. The book is anchored by two deeply thought, fully inhabited people who give tone to a love tale that is as emotionally powerful as it is intellectually spirited.
