'Loving Frank' by Nancy Horan

This was a pick for one of the reading groups I am part of. It is a fictional imagining of the extra-marital relationship between the brilliant American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and one of his clients, Maima Borthwick. This was quite a scandal before the First World War because they both left families to travel and take up with one another.

I would certainly recommend this book, but would say that it is best to read it while knowing as little as possible about the real story on which it is based. It is very difficult to weave real people and real events into a work of fiction while remaining completely credible, but this author pulled it off with aplomb; and it was her debut novel too. This was my favourite quote:

"Heat was something people took for granted until it was suddenly not there. What did a person need in order to survive? Food, water, shelter, warmth on cold weather. Those simple things were helping both of them heal. And something else. Books."