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Author: Fonseca, Isabel

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 07-05-2009

Details: Product Description


After more than twenty years together, Jean and Mark revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. Life seems idyllic. Until, that is, Jean opens a salacious love-letter addressed to Mark. Looking for answers she goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own...


Review


Just thinking of this novel, I smile... so gratifyingly readable. When it comes to deciphering our new world and its emotional intricacies, Fonseca is spot-on -- Fay Weldon

A searing tale of middle-aged anxiety, so accomplished and pertinent, witty and wise ―
Independent on Sunday

Fonseca possesses a wonderful eye and vocabulary for the observable world, a natural gift for portraiture and a nasty wit about characters we're not supposed to like... All is perfectly suited to her complex subject, one worth taking seriously: the difficulty of loving someone you already love, and its corollary, the stony impenetrability of others -- Richard Ford

An impressive debut...it is insistent, weighty, carefully and densely composed....this is an adult book in all respects, reflecting, with an inquiring intelligence and emotional honesty ―
Time Out

She has an expressive turn of phrase and a gift for evoking a sense of place ―
Sunday Times


About the Author


Isabel Fonseca was educated at Columbia University and Oxford University. She was an assistant editor at the
Times Literary Supplement and she edited
Soho Square. She has written for a wide range of publications including the
Independent,
Vogue,
The Nation and
The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of
Bury Me Standing and
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EAN: 9780099513384

Package Dimensions: 10.4 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English