I decided to read this work of historical fiction because I had heard that Elizabeth Berg had spent three years writing it and because I knew next to nothing about the author, George Sand.  Berg’s telling of Sand’s family, lovers and literary friends is interesting, and gives one a flavor of life in France in the mid 1800’s.  However, too often Berg’s renderings of Sand’s search for love, her desperate need for love and her many disappointments in her lovers got a bit tedious.