Amherst by William Nicholson

This was an amusing quick read about a young woman writing a screenplay about the love affair between Emily Dickinson's brother and Mabel Loomis Todd.  I guess it's all based on fact and it was a pretty interesting story. The novel jumps back and forth in time, sometimes as Alice, the young writer, and sometimes to Mabel, the young woman who has the affair with Austin Dickinson.

There are parallel stories here as Nick, the older man that Alice stays with when doing her research in Amherst, is married (as was Austin).  Of course, Alice falls for him.  Some of this was predictable, but it was entertaining and had some interesting discourses on love, marriage, fidelity, and more.