Set in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arvers, or Le Journal de Mademoiselle D'Arvers, is a novel of possibilities and limitations; of love, marriage and domesticity, and the heartaches and joys of growing up. Fifteen-year-old Marguerite, fresh from her convent education and extremely religious, returns to her family and experiences the first stirrings of love, only to find herself entangled in a complicated net of ...
