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This novel explores the conflicts which underlie even the most conventional of lives - the eternal struggle between female and male, the spirit and the flesh, reason and desire. A young couple acquire a cottage in Somerset, Liffey moving to live there while her husband stays on in London.
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9 editions- Paperback · English · 2003Flamingo · 352 pages · 9780007109241
- Other · English · 2013Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480413108
- Other · English · 2013Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480413115
- Other · English · 2011HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007389667
- Other · English · 1994Sceptre · 272 pages · 9780340599174
- Other · English · 1990Penguin Books · 272 pages · 9780140131185
FictionWomenCountry homesMarriageMarried womenFiction, generalMarriage, fictionFiction, psychological