The Wide House Author:Taylor Caldwell Portrait of a magnetic and wicked woman in Pre-Civil War America -- Janie Cauder, the young wife who hounded her husband to his grave...the rapacious mistress whose lover fled from her into a sterile marriage...the vehement mother who drove her children to madness, down paths of bitter, twisted lives. Still, her victims lo... more »ved her. And only she knew why.« less
It is a story in the mid 1800's of a young widow who arrives in New York with 4 children and it is a gripping story of how she survives and is successful in life. A very interesting love story.