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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER âEuro¢ <i>TODAY</i> SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK âEuro¢ <b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>THE WASHINGTON POST </i>AND <i>ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH</i></b></b><br><br><i>Look for special features inside. Join the Random House ReaderâEuros Circle for author chats and more.</i><br><br>From Nancy Horan, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Loving Frank,</i> comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.<br><br>At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for BelgiumâEuro"with her three children and nanny in towâEuro"to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artistsâEuro colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated âEuro²belle Americaine."<br><br>Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writingâEuro"and who would eventually pen such classics as<i>Treasure Island </i>and <i>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i>. In time, though, she succumbs to StevensonâEuros charms, and the two begin a fierce love affairâEuro"marked by intense joy and harrowing darknessâEuro"that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of StevensonâEuros own unforgettable tales.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Under the Wide and Starry Sky</i></b><br><br>âEuro²A richly imagined [novel] of love, laughter, pain and sacrifice . . . <i>Under the Wide and Starry Sky</i> is a dual portrait, with Louis and Fanny sharing the limelight in the best spirit of teamworkâEuro"a romantic partnership."<b>âEuro"<i>USA Today</i></b><br><br>âEuro²Powerful . . . flawless . . . a perfect example of what a man and a woman will do for love, and what they can accomplish when itâEuros meant to be."<b>âEuro"<i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i></b><br><br>âEuro²Spectacular . . . an exhilarating epic about a free-spirited couple who traveled the world yet found home only in one another."<b>âEuro"<i>Booklist</i> (starred review)</b><br><br>âEuro²HoranâEuros prose is gorgeous enough to keep a reader transfixed, even if the story itself werenâEurot so compelling. I kept re-reading passages just to savor the exquisite wordplay. . . . Few writers are as masterful as she is at blending carefully researched history with the novelistâEuros art."<b>âEuro"<i>The Dallas Morning News</i></b><br><br>âEuro²A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance."<b><i>âEuro"The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>âEuro²Nancy Horan has done it again, capturing the entwined lives of Fanny Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson so uncannily, it reads like truth."<b>âEuro"Sarah Blake, author of<i>The Postmistress</i></b><br><br>âEuro²Horan has a distinct knack for evoking the rich, complicated lives of long-gone artists and the women who inspired them."<b>âEuro"<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>