# The Reef

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- Book: [The Reef](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-wharton/the-reef) ([The Reef.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-wharton/the-reef.md))
- Authors: [Edith Wharton](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-wharton)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-08-6068-372-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1983-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, the first love of her youth, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau to await her future: between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promise? But the charming Sophie Viner, governess to Anna's young daughter, holds the key to a secret which comes to reveal that Anna's future - and the very foundation of her life - is fragile where it appears most strong.