Villa America

'A brilliant novel about love in all its forms . . . A deeply moving portrait of a marriage and of a world' Irish Times

'A gorgeous novel' Sunday Express

'Immersive, tense, seductive fiction' Sunday Times

Sara and Gerald Murphy's life and family are the envy of all who visit Villa America, their dazzling home on the French Riviera. They and their friends - Picasso, Hemingway, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald - are the brightest stars of the 1920s, devoted to unrestrained passion and creativity.

But their lives are irrevocably altered by the arrival into their world of an intriguing new figure: a young American pilot, Owen Chambers. Sara and Gerald will be forced to choose between the ideals on which their marriage is built, and the dangerous pursuit of a different kind of love.

When tragedy strikes at the heart of their golden idyll, they must learn that not all that is precious is built to last.

'Stylish and unputdownable' Sunday Express

'Klaussmann entwines her fact and fiction with a smooth, near seemless stitch, and the end result makes for exhilarating and moving reading' Observer