**A warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world, from the bestselling author of The Wife and * The Interestings.***Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the person who will change her life.

**A warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world, from the bestselling author of The Wife and * The Interestings.***Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the person who will change her life.

Faith Frank, an influential and glamorous figure from the women’s movement, inhabits a very different world to Greer’s. But after a chance encounter Faith singles Greer out and invites her into her life, leading her down a thrilling path as it winds towards and away from her meant-to-be love story with high school sweetheart Cory and the future she had always imagined.Expansive and wise, compassionate and witty, The Female Persuasion * is about the spark we all believe is flickering inside us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time.*