“The dream lover” came into my hands as a recommendation from my local library. I had exhausted the relationship and family sagas of Joanna Trollope and Cathy Kelly (English and Irish). Here the highly experienced USA author is writing superbly, if exhaustingly (showing not just telling) about Bohemian Europeans of a giftedness in the Arts/Music that daunt me. For example Chopin's music thrills me. My wise music teacher gave me a pictorial book of his life.
Who or what was a/the "Dream Lover"? This Jungian term means more than Elvis "dreaming my life away". Learning about this experience through Jungian analysis both saved my marriage and helped me understand my own mother and her twin sister. Both had had "dream lovers " due to the deaths in WWll of their American airmen beloveds.
This book made me glad I was not a genius!