Mount Vernon Love Story

A Novel of George and Martha Washington

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Linda Emond

In Mount Vernon Love Story, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives—even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge—in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.©2008 Mary Higgins Clark; (P)2008 Simon & Schuster

The love story

It was too short. ! It was enlightening to hear the personal George Washington.

Their love for each other gave Washington strength that served our nation.

Loved the story. I would love to hear what documents (like old letters and correspondence) were utilized to write the story.

A deeper look at Washington

A moving and emotional perspective that peels the layers of the presumed and statued hero of our country. I only wish it was longer.

So sweet

I did not want it to end. It was such a sweet story. Sounds like a hard life they all lived.

Love a love story

Read for a book club. Very enjoyable book. Ms Clark and the narrator make the real life characters real life people, not just historical figures in portraits and on coins