Description: The book is a wonderful story about modern marriage and about a woman who falls in love with a younger man. Twenty years of marriage to the older widower Max has seen Prue through the stresses of a resentful stepdaughter as well as motherhood. When the stepdaughter returns with her new husband from New York, Prue is precipitated into a secret life. The small village in Hampshire and the city are very different places and, as Prue now moves between the two, she traces the boundaries between innocence and difficult knowledge, between the gluttony and surrender of desire and the stark realities that result. Pinpointing the battleground of the modern -- and second -- marriage, the author offers a blisteringly truthful and tenderly observed picture of the extraordinary bargains and accommodations that are struck between people who love one another.

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