The Golden Hour

by WilliamNicholson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $3.17

  She loves him. She's happy. But could she be happier? Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart - Maggie in the country, Andrew in town. When Andrew is offered a job close to Maggie, moving in with her is the obvious next step. Or is it? Is this the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with? Maggie panics. She ends their relationship, devastating Andrew. But when he turns the tables on her, she begins to see him differently. Meanwhile, Maggie's Sussex neighbours are living through their own intense dilemmas. The stories of Maggie and other characters entwine in a continuous dance over seven golden days of high summer - a human kaleidoscope that captures how passionate yet mundane, painful yet comic our everyday lives can be.

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $5.73

  Maggie, 30, and Andrew, 32, have been together for eighteen months. It's a good relationship, and Andrew has recently made the decision to take up the offer of a new job in Lewes. This has implications. As the first chapter begins, Andrew says to Maggie, 'I've been thinking...'. She knows at once that he's about to suggest they move in together. In that instant she realises, for the first time, that fond though she is of Andrew she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life with him. On the other hand, if she parts with him now, what if she never meets someone as easy to be with? What if she stays single? Is an okay guy better than none? This is the dilemma that Maggie lives out over the next seven days. She breaks up with Andrew, suffers doubts, confides in her best girlfriend. The girlfriend, Josie, mediates with a grief-stricken Andrew, and ends up in bed with him. This unintended betrayal causes Maggie, to her humiliation, to see Andrew quite differently, and to end up wanting him back again.

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $11.52

  She loves him. She's happy. But could she be happier? Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart - Maggie in the country, Andrew in town. When Andrew is offered a job close to Maggie, moving in with her is the obvious next step. Or is it? Is this the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with? Maggie panics. She ends their relationship, devastating Andrew. But when he turns the tables on her, she begins to see him differently. Meanwhile, Maggie's Sussex neighbours are living through their own intense dilemmas. The stories of Maggie and other characters entwine in a continuous dance over seven golden days of high summer - a human kaleidoscope that captures how passionate yet mundane, painful yet comic our everyday lives can be.