Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
reviewed on + 100 more book reviews


Kitty Fane married a man she did not love. He discovered her affair and forced her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. There, volunteering at a convent, her emerging conscience compels her to reassess her life choices.
Written in 1925, there's not a lot of action, but the author has a great understanding of the human psychic, at least in these characters.