"The Dream Lover" by Elizabeth Berg ***

• Early Reviewer's edition for LibraryThing.com
• US author
• Originally published April 2015
• Imagined life of author George Sand
• Epigraphs:
• "The finest female genius of any country or age." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "She is beyond doubt or comparison the strongest woman and the most astonishingly gifted." --Franz Lizt
• "When my submission has been claimed, no longer in the name of love and friendship but by reason of some right or power, I have drawn upon the strength that is buried in my nature, I have straightened my shoulders and thrown off the yoke.  I alone know the latent force hidden within me.  I alone know how much I grieve and suffer and love." -- George Sand
• Review:  I must start with a disclaimer.  I had a terrible time reading and/or appreciating this book.  I spent way  too much of my time wondering what was "imagined" by the author and what was not..  I just was unable to suspend my desire to know more about George Sand and somehow disentangle that desire from the well written novel in front of me.  Elizabeth Berg's writing was very good, but I am a bibliophile and have really enjoyed Sands' writing. I now realize that I do not want to have to tease truth from fiction about someone so important, yet I couldn't let go and engage in the novel as a good story.  If that is not a problem you think you would run in to....by all means read this.