Promise of Love [Hardcover]

Mary Renault (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 382 pages
• Publisher: Queens House (June 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892440791
• ISBN-13: 978-0892440795
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,169,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining But Not Renault's Best, December 13, 2001

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This review is from: Promise of Love (Paperback)

My first suprise with this book was that it was Set in England in the thirties - I had only read Renault's novels set in ancient times and loved them and just picked this up b/c she wrote it. As it turns out this was her first novel - written in the 30s and given that-it is very good. She tells the story of Vivian and Mic both working in the rigid hospital life of that era - but living a life outside the hospital that was a lot more passionate. Abortion, unfaithfulness,emotional angst and sexual themes in the book kept me reading and I would probably read it again. The grim and dark feeling that the book left me with is probably what is influencing my lower rating.