Benjamin Disraeli was a struggling novelist when he met Mary Anne Lewis, a well-to-do widow 15 years his senior. Biographer Hay (鈥淭he Young Romantics鈥) does a lovely job of chronicling this unlikely love story, complete with insights into life among the 19th-century British elite. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli" here.