A review by kittykornerlibrarian
Ecstasy by Mary Sharratt

4.0

Historical fiction set in Vienna? Sign me up! This is the story of Alma Mahler that starts when she is a young woman studying performance and composition in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna. Alma is intense, talented, and romantic, and these attributes shape her life as she makes sense of her place in the world. She writes innovative music, is a prominent figure in Viennese artistic society, and has many tempestuous love affairs and marriages with men of high stature. This was lush and romantic. I loved it.