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It's 1917 when we are introduced to Lilian Eliot, a Beacon Hill Bostonian and the book ends when she is in her 40's. Lillian met Walter Vail just as she was coming of age, fell in love, only to be left for someone else. Decades later Walter returns and she chooses to confront her feelings about what is more important - continuing to hold feelings for a man she really doesn't know or return to her comfortable but terribly routine life. Folly is written with elegant prose. Dialogue is not abundant in this book and yet the author does an excellent job of detailing the roles and conveying the hidden thoughts and feelings women of this era likely had.

An interesting and beautifully writen story of societal relations that spanned decades.