by Rosamond Lehmann (Author)
Grace Fairfax lives with her dull, conventional husband Tom in a grey manufacturing town in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her external life of dreary routine fails to match up to her lush, wistful and dreamy internal life. Norah, her energetic and chaotic friend, is equally settled in her own marriage to an irritable university professor. Then Hugh Miller and his sister Claire descend upon the quiet town. On all four, the hypnotic charm of these two visitors exerts an enchanting spell. And after their departure, life - having been violently disrupted - will never be quite the same again ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 337
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Virago
Published: 15 Feb 1982
ISBN 10: 086068248X
ISBN 13: 9780860682486
Book Overview: * the novel that confirmed Lehmann's reputation * a novel of colour, passion and delight, lavish, graceful and rich