For the sake of her kids, Fanny returns to the U.S., but soon, Sam begins philandering again. They live happily more or less together in Paris until Sam arrives from California and begs Fanny to reconcile.
Initially, she resists-he is too boisterous and sickly-but she is eventually won over, as every reader will be, by his love of life and pure spirit as well as his genius. After Hervey dies of tuberculosis in Paris, grieving Fanny decamps to a rural inn, where she encounters "Louis." He has been hiking the countryside alone, despite fragile health, to celebrate earning a law degree to please his father, although he plans never to practice law. For Louis, 10 years Fanny’s junior, it is love at first sight. In 1875, 35-year-old Fanny Osbourne arrives in Europe with her three children-16-year-old Belle, 7-year-old Sammy and 3-year-old Hervey-ostensibly to study art but really to escape Sam, her perpetually unfaithful husband. Horan ( Loving Frank, 2007) offers another fictionalized romantic biography, this time of Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife, Fanny.
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