Still Lives - Softcover

Cato, Anna

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 009922612X ISBN 13: 9780099226123

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1997

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Isolated in Paris and in desperate need ol rescuing, it was not surprising that Louise would see Geoffrey Carmjchael as her salvation. But, nineteen years on, Louise remains an outsider and their love is now a mere flicker under the weight of Oxford tradition, constraint and the demands of academia. When her French cousin Pierre visits her it is almost inevitable that he will become the catalyst for a reappraisal of a marriage already at risk. As he lavs siege to Louise's heart she forms an unlikely friendship with a visiting American professor, tends her beloved garden, and tries to remain a good wife. And all the time she inches towards a resolution as unexpected as it is outlandish. Wry, perceptive and masterly, Still Lives is a novel of outstanding talent.

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Louise Carmichael is the daughter of an English artist and a French emmissary. When she first meets Geoffrey Carmichael she is 19, working for her grandfather in his famous art gallery in Paris and desolate. Geoffrey offers escape - to her father's world and a life of her own, but she could have no idea that life in Oxford would come complete with its own constraints and restrictions. Twenty years later she makes a small bid for freedom and the taste of liberty is a dangerous thing wth unforseen results...

Synopsis:

The marriage of Geoffrey and Louise Carmichael is breaking down under the weight of Oxford tradition and the constraints and demands of academia. When Louise's French cousin, Pierre, visits her he becomes the catalyst for a reappraisal of a relationship already at risk.

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