A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young and attractive, but penniless. Gracefully moving through New York high society, they have the right connections but none of the wealth. When they inconveniently fall in love, Susy devises a plan. They will marry and spend a year flitting across Europe, staying in the homes of their rich friends and living off honeymoon gifts until either one of them meets a better, richer prospect. But jealous passions and troubled consciences soon cause their idyll to crumble. Told with Edith Wharton's trademark wit, Glimpses of the Moon is a tartly amusing story of social climbing and romantic misadventure from one of our greatest writers.

"A magnificently subtle, passionate and constantly surprising writer" - Telegraph

"Wharton's unjustly neglected novel... a luscious, worldly, sensuous read, surely the equal of its most obvious offspring - Tender is the Night" - Independent

"The sharp irony of both her prose and her characters bleeds into pools of true feeling" - Kirkus Reviews

"This dark, beautifully-written and perceptive novel still feels fresh today" - The Lady