A review by ricefun
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan

5.0

I began this novel with high expectations, and it did not disappoint. Nancy Horan made an amazing debut with Loving Frank, and has followed that success with another fantastic story of companionship. Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Louis Stevenson found inspiration and success at a young age. Stevenson also found his life partner, Fanny, at a young age. Their life together crisscrossed artistic communities, social boundaries, and geographical locations in search of inspiration and health. This novel, more than many others I've been reading about literary wives, expresses the challenges of living beside - and in the shadow of - a partner's stunning success. Altogether an inspiring and tragic success of a story.