The Annunciation

About this book

Amanda is rich bored and middle-aged a would-be-writer who has left her husband and traded New Orleans for the hill country of Arkansas. There she is happily translating an obscure 18th-century French poetess whose illicit affair led to imprisonment and suicide.Amanda finds herself infatuated with a student. What starts as a fling becomes a grand and impossible passion. Then she discovers she is pregnant as was the woman whose poems she re-creates and we watch as the parallel stories of these two women unfold each ending tragically."Gilchrists manner is both stylish and idiomatic--a rare and potent combination." (Times Literary Supplement)