A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardcoverby Camille Peri (Author) "A love story, an adventure story, two literary biographies in one; A Wilder Shore is these things and more and it's very, very good." Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Women Behind the Door The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent