While on holiday in Istanbul, tragedy strikes, and suddenly the comfortably middle-aged, middle-class Amy is left stranded and a widow. Martha, a young American novelist, kindly helps her, but upon their return to England, Amy is ungratefully reluctant to maintain their friendship—on home soil she realizes that in normal circumstances, Martha isn't the sort of person she would be friends with. But guilt is a hard taskmaster, and Martha has a way of getting under one's skin.
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This last novel by English novelist Taylor (1912-1975) blends gentle wit with sympathy in telling the story of a woman's adjustment to her husband's death.
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'A compassionate and devastating tale' Daily Mail 'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler 'Elizabeth Taylor had the keenest eye and ear for the pain lurking behind a genteel demeanour' Paul Bailey, Guardian 'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard 'The unsung heroine of British 20th century fiction' Rebecca Abrams, New Statesman 'A wonderful novelist' Jilly Cooper 'How skilfully and with what peculiar exhilaration she negotiated the minefield of the human heart' Jonathan Keates 'An eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose-style is elegant -- even the humdrum becomes astonishing' Daily Telegraph 'Brilliantly amusing' Rosamund Lehman
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Laurel Walk, Auntie Dot, Miss Thompson, New Ludlow, Gareth Lloyd, Laurel House, Campden Hill, Ernie Pounce, Reverend Patrick Padstowe, The Windsor Castle New!
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Laurel Walk, Auntie Dot, Miss Thompson, New Ludlow, Gareth Lloyd, Laurel House, Campden Hill, Ernie Pounce, Reverend Patrick Padstowe, The Windsor Castle New!
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- In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor on 5 pages
- Loving and Giving by Molly Keane in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Devastating Boys (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor in Front Matter
- The Wedding Group by Elizabeth Taylor in Front Matter
- Elizabeth and Ivy by Robert Liddell in Back Matter
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