Second Fiddle - Couverture rigide

Wesley, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333474538 ISBN 13 : 9780333474532

Editeur : Macmillan, 1988

Synopsis

After a brief but enjoyable dalliance with a visiting Romanian composer, Laura Thornby, fancy free and in her forties, encounters a struggling young 23-year-old and is swept by an irresistible desire to interfere, manipulate and experiment with him. This has unforeseen consequences.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. Although she initially fulfilled her parent's expectations in marrying an aristocrat she then scandalised them when she divorced him in 1945 and moved in with the great love of her life, Eric Siepmann. The couple married in 1952, once his wife had finally been persuaded to divorce him. She used to comment that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel [Jumping the Queue] published at the age of seventy'. She went on to write a further nine novels, three of which were adapted for television, including the best-selling The Camomile Lawn. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list and died in 2002.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career fulfilling and she copes with her two rather peculiar relatives and the gossip about her parentage with wryness and humour.

But then she meets twenty-three-year old Claude, a struggling writer, and she is overcome by an irresistible desire to interfere, manipulate and experiment - all for his own good, of course.

What Laura does not foresee, however, are the possibilities that one day Claude may actually complete his novel and that she may well fall in love.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333474538
• ISBN 13: 9780333474532
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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