This maybe the first love story I've read by a male author. He didn't do a bad job of it either.
Desiree and Scott are total opposites when they first meet on a boat. She is a Countess and he was going to Geneva for graduate school. Well, boy meets girl and that's it. They are both smitten with each other, even though they are 8 years apart (I didn't think that was a big deal) but obviously her mother, also a Countess and his parents who didn't know about Desiree until almost the middle of the book did. He came from a middle class family while she was a sophisticated woman who really didn't need to work and had her charitable work. She lived the lap of luxury that's for sure.
It was set in the 1960s but there was hardly any reference to that until a few celebrities from that era were mentioned at Cannes.
Desiree and Scott are total opposites when they first meet on a boat. She is a Countess and he was going to Geneva for graduate school. Well, boy meets girl and that's it. They are both smitten with each other, even though they are 8 years apart (I didn't think that was a big deal) but obviously her mother, also a Countess and his parents who didn't know about Desiree until almost the middle of the book did. He came from a middle class family while she was a sophisticated woman who really didn't need to work and had her charitable work. She lived the lap of luxury that's for sure.
It was set in the 1960s but there was hardly any reference to that until a few celebrities from that era were mentioned at Cannes.