The Chastened Heart

When Professor Alice Prescott writes a best-selling novel based on her
passionate, once-troubled marriage to journalist Tom Winslow, the
couples quiet Connecticut life is shaken by more than bad memories. Th e
past itself returns, as if beckoned by Alices book. Now, the Winslows learn
what their unyielding love has cost them--and others.

Th e Chastened Heart is a novel of middle class American and European
manners, satirical yet compassionate, realistic yet committed to the spiritual
and ethical concerns of the very best fi ction. Robert Crookes deeply
emotional narrative urges a reader to follow the Winslows into a past that is
both personal and universal, and to embrace with them the mysteries that
their marriage represents.