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Laura King, a single woman, childless, mid-40s, has just been told she has a year to live. She decides to hold a party, inviting the dozen men who have played a significant role in her past. Most are ex-lovers, some just good friends but to all of them she makes the most unorthodox suggestion.
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Laura King is a liberated, intelligent and successful woman: successful not only in her career but also with men. Although she has never married, hers has been an active and emotionally fulfilled life. Suddenly, at the age of forty-four, she learns that she is suffering from a rare liver disease and has only a year or two to live.
In typically flamboyant style, Laura invites her ex-lovers to dinner. There she announces the unusual part they are to play in her final months. As The Constant Mistress unravels Laura's past, racing against time, Angela Lambert focuses on the relationships between men and women, sisters, parents and friends. Laura's last months concentrate her mind on the tug between domesticity and freedom, between fidelity and desire, and, above all, on the experience and aftermath of passion.
In a novel that is witty and moving, Angela Lambert reveals the dilemmas of the privileged generation of women who came to adulthood after the Pill but before Aids.
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Angela Lambert was born in 1940 and educated at boarding school in Sussex and then at St Hilda's College, Oxford where she read PPE. She worked for a cabinet minister before becoming a journalist in 1969. She has been a television reporter with ITN and Thames Television, and joined the newly formed Independent in 1988. She now writes for the Sunday Telegraph. Angela Lambert has three grown-up children and six grandchildren; she lives with her partner, Tony Price, in London and France. She is the author of six previous novels including A Rather English Marriage, which has been made into an award-winning film starring Tom Courtenay , Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0241134528
- ISBN 13 9780241134528
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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