Odd Girl Out - Softcover

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447272366 ISBN 13: 9781447272366

Publisher: Picador, 2015

Synopsis

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, in Odd Girl Out, Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with devastating accuracy a marriage put in a most destructive situation.

Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll.

Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving.

With her elegant prose the author traces the web of love and desire that entangles these three; but it is Arabella who finally loses out.

About this title

Book Description:

A marriage is put to the test in this astonishing exploration of love from the author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

From the Back Cover:

Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll.

Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving.

A web of love and desire entangles these three; but in such a treacherous game, someone must finally lose out.

Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with elegant prose and devastating accuracy a situation both shattering and destructive . . .

Praise for Elizabeth Jane Howard

'She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts' Hilary Mantel

'Her navigation of the web of human relations [is] seemingly effortless' Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447272366
• ISBN 13: 9781447272366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352