Tender Is the Night

This novel follows Dick Diver, a gifted young American psychiatrist, and his wife Nicole, a wealthy patient he has married. Set mainly on the French Riviera and elsewhere in Europe in the 1920s, it begins with the couple at the centre of a glamorous circle of expatriates, seen first through the eyes of a young actress who admires them.

As the story moves back and forth in time, it explores love, money, responsibility and the slow wearing down of a talented man. Drawing on Fitzgerald's own troubled marriage, it is a rich and sorrowful book that was little appreciated at first and is now highly regarded.