From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a sly, subversive, and utterly delightful comedy of contemporary manners. Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, is the epitome of a successful woman-with lovely offspring and grandchildren, a French husband, a delightful house, and an independent career as an admired art lecturer. She has both an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life. But then Lorna decides to leave her husband, a notorious seducer, and his small ancestral village in France, and return to an America she has been away from for twenty years. For Lorna, a beautiful idyll is over, finished, done ... In