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Between Friends - Softcover

Rowntree, Kathleen

 
9780552995061: Between Friends

Synopsis

A comedy of village customs, manners, marriages and affairs. Past experience leads Tessa to suspect that her husband is having another affair, and a chance remark over mid-morning coffee indicates that things may be even worse than she thought. By the author of "The Quiet War of Rebecca Sheldon".

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About the Author

Kathleen Rowntree was born in Northumberland, brought up in Lincolnshire, studied music and English at Hull University and is now living with her husband in Oxfordshire. She taught for some years before she began to write. When asked what her novels are about she usually replies with one word: 'relationships'. Her explorations of human foibles and tangles lead reviewers to use words like sharp, shrewd, witty, satirical, clever and hard-biting - as well as sympathetic, funny, warm, suspenseful and (fortunately) entertaining. She has many other interests besides reading and writing fiction, especially art, poetry and hill-walking. Among the UK writers she herself gets most from are Elizabeth Taylor, Julian Barnes and William Trevor while Anne Tyler and Alison Lurie are two of her US favourites.

From the Back Cover

Past experience leads Tessa Brierley to suspect that her husband Nick is, once again, having an affair. Her first instinct, as always, is to confide in her best friend Maddy, but a chance remark over mid-morning coffee forestalls her as a new and more shocking suspicion dawns.

Set in the small village of Wychwood, Between Friends is an astutely witty novel of loyalties and betrayals.

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