Bingo: Family. The entire book revolves around the protagonist’s families and her place in them. Polly is happily married to her husband Henry and a content mother. Her own family is patrician and oppressive, a very tight unit that has enfolded Polly her whole life. In both of her families Polly is reliable, uncomplaining, giving, and steady. Which makes it all the more surprising when she finds herself in a passionate love affair with an artist named Lincoln. The intense love between Polly and Lincoln […]