![]() He sets out to earn sufficient money to woo her but in the meantime, because their relationship has been secret, she is obliged to marry Nina’s older cousin, Gaetan, who is of a wealthy family. Hector, unlike almost everyone else, doesn’t treat Nina’s telekinetic talent as a nuisance or something to be hidden away, but then he has made a considerable fortune at putting on shows demonstrating his talent after leaving his home town a talented yet penniless boy who had fallen in love with Valerie a decade earlier. She also grows into a very talented telekineticist. Nina, by contrast, is sweet, charming, and a young woman who grows to know her own mind and be certain of herself. ![]() ![]() Valerie is a poisonously jealous, possessive woman who seems never to have grown up and clearly has no idea how to be happy, and any compassion I initially felt for her was burned away by how vicious she became during the course of the tale. Nina and Hector are fascinatingly real characters – as is Valerie – and I disliked the latter almost more than I liked the two protagonists. In fact, although a couple of the place names can be found on a map of France, so far as I can tell, it’s a secondary world story – although they have motorcars and cigarettes, trains and church-based religion. Ah, I loved this book! It’s a Regency-style novel of manners – though it’s not set in Regency England. ![]()
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