The Joys of Love
During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. She¹s never felt so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeth¹s ever kissed who has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeth¹s perfect summer is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was.
Moving and romantic, this coming-of-age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed in an introduction by the author¹s granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L¹Engle herself as a young woman‹³vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer.²
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