Sanctuary

Written by Edith Wharton

Narrated by Alice Johnson

Our heroine Kate is madly in love with her fiancé. She is planning their wedding and future life together... Unfortunately, she discovers a secret that he has that will forever change what she thinks of him. With this new insight, she is toils with her desire to be morally accountable; and for him to "do the right thing"... Much later in life; she finds herself in a very similar situation, only this time with her own son... A gripping and fascinating novella about the so called Gilded Age, by one of the true masters of the genre!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Audioliterature
• Release date: Jul 12, 2017

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.