Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a clandestine affair with Rickie. Madeleine, calm and resolute, has accepted that her marriage has been of limited success. Rickie's sudden death makes widows of both sisters in this highly imaginative novel that explores with extraordinary insight the sublimity, the rivalry and the pain of personal relationships. 'She makes a mood, an atmosphere, which is never forgotten ...The inner voice of women talking to themselves about their love affairs, knowing that it is hopeless, having to go ahead anyway, expecting the end as soon as it begins. That, of course, is what Rosamond Lehmann does best' Sunday Times
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844083121
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 241 g
Dimensions: 133 x 200 x 21 mm
She makes a mood, an atmosphere, which is never forgotten . . . The inner voice of women talking to themselves about their love affairs, knowing that it is hopeless, having to go ahead anyway, expecting the end as soon as it begins. That, of course, is what Rosamond Lehmann does best - Sunday Times
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen - Elizabeth Jane Howard
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes - English PEN
A novelist in the grand tradition . . . The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions - Anita Brookner
Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love - Margaret Drabble
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