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The bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman returns with a delightfully wise and witty novel of two women constrained by choice. One has too little, the other too much.In the summer of 1959, 40-year-old Barbara Beeching, the married mother of two grown-up children, embarks on an unexpected, tender, and surprisingly passionate affair with a much younger man. Forty years later, 35-year-old Siena Grant, a successful television fashion consultant, faces a difficult question: Should she agree to have the baby her husband yearns for?Decades separate Barbara and Siena, yet each is at a crossroads, and each is wondering, 'Where does happiness lie?' They are destined never to meet, yet their stories are woven together and their intimate, inner lives are linked. Fans of Elizabeth Buchan know that no one is better at capturing the complexities of marriage at middle age. Each of her novels is eagerly awaited by women who revere her as a literary goddess. Her latestsavvy, sophisticated, irresistibly entertainingdoes not disappoint.… (plus d'informations)
A pleasant enough light read, featuring two women 50 years apart. One is a traditional housewife in the 1950s, hankering for something more; the other a modern career-woman whose husband would like her to be more traditional... ( )
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She felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labour and endurance. She was part of that involuntary, palpitating life. . . George Eliot, Middlemarch
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For Fanny
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Last night, Charlie talked about the house.
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I smiled at Charlie. "It's a lovely house," I said.
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The bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman returns with a delightfully wise and witty novel of two women constrained by choice. One has too little, the other too much.In the summer of 1959, 40-year-old Barbara Beeching, the married mother of two grown-up children, embarks on an unexpected, tender, and surprisingly passionate affair with a much younger man. Forty years later, 35-year-old Siena Grant, a successful television fashion consultant, faces a difficult question: Should she agree to have the baby her husband yearns for?Decades separate Barbara and Siena, yet each is at a crossroads, and each is wondering, 'Where does happiness lie?' They are destined never to meet, yet their stories are woven together and their intimate, inner lives are linked. Fans of Elizabeth Buchan know that no one is better at capturing the complexities of marriage at middle age. Each of her novels is eagerly awaited by women who revere her as a literary goddess. Her latestsavvy, sophisticated, irresistibly entertainingdoes not disappoint.
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