All formats/editions
Description
A celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress – the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing intimacy between her husband and the young woman, and becomes tormented by the idea that they will betray her. In this delicately-wrought novel, Christopher Nicholson has been inspired by the true story of the first theatrical production of Tess of the D’Urbervilles to paint a subtle and moving portrait of life’s little ironies, its disappointments and its desires.
All Formats/Editions
Click the Download button to download a copy of the MARC file.
Enter your FTP details below to send the MARC export file via FTP.
Product recommendations
by Patrick Flanery
by Sam Thompson
by Joanna Rakoff
by Virginia Woolf
by Jane Anne Phillips
by Lori Lansens
by Andrea Chapin
by Sean Michaels
by Jacqueline Winspear
by Bernard Cornwell
by James Fenimore Cooper
by Priya Parmar
Professional reviews
"‘A wonderfully insightful — and occasionally humorous — portrait of marital unhappiness and the dynamics of desire and longing’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘A superfine, thistledown novel… written in a prose of such quality that one does not notice the quality’ GUARDIAN"
Stay up to date with W.F.Howes news and announcements
The Home of Audiobooks & Large Print