The Joys of Love

During the summer of 1946 twentyyearold Elizabeth is doing what she hasdreamed of since she was a little girl working in the theatre. Elizabeth ispassionate abo... » 

During the summer of 1946 twentyyearold Elizabeth is doing what she hasdreamed of since she was a little girl working in the theatre. Elizabeth ispassionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summertheatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. Shes never feltso alive. And soon she finds another passion Kurt Canitz the dashing youngdirector of the company and the first man Elizabeths ever kissed who hasreally meant something to her. Then Elizabeths perfect summer is profoundlyshaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was. Movingand romantic this comingofage story was written during the 1940s. Asrevealed in an introduction by the authors granddaughter Lena Roy theprotagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of LEngleherself as a young womanvibrant vulnerable and yearning for love and allthat life has to offer. «