The Young in Heart

by I.A.R. Wylie

The predatory Carleton clan--a family of card-sharps, spongers, and romantic adventurers--spot their next target in a lonely old woman appropriately named Miss Fortune. Their initial disdain for the lady's kindness and trusting nature turns in time to twinges of conscience, then an eagerness to please, then true affection. By the end of the dreary English winter the quartet's encounter with Miss Fortune has proven the most fortunate thing that could ever have happened to them.

This short novel was originally published in magazine serial form as "The Gay Bandetti."

227 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1938

About the author

Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, known by her pen name I. A. R. Wylie, was an Australian-British-American novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, and poet. Between 1915 and 1953, more than thirty of her novels and stories were adapted into films.