“A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender is the Night is lyrical, expansive and hauntingly evocative”
NO MAJOR SPOILERS
Thanks to the advice from the staff at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, I brought Tender is the Night as a follow up from reading The Great Gatsby.
Another beautifully written book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in 1920’s in the French Rivera. Beginning much like a romantic, love story with stunning settings, described so beautifully by Fitzgerald, it could make any bookworm fall in love.
“When this died away on the summer air, she walked on, between kaleidoscopic peonies massed in pink clouds, black and brown tulips and fragile mauve-stemmed roses, transparent like sugar flowers in a confectioner’s window”