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Synopsis
Monica Jensen surprises everyone who knows her - including her husband - when she accepts an offer to teach at a boys' school in Pennsylvania. As she moves into her new rambling house, Sheila Trask arrives, a wild-looking figure in jodhpurs, and invites herself in. Sheila, a painter, has long baffled the neighbours with her strange habits and eccentric demeanour. Monica can't decide if she likes the woman, if she wishes her gone or if she feels a tug of powerful attraction. Week by week, as Monica settles into the community and her teaching role, Sheila's exhausting attentions gradually become a source of energising insight: into Monica's own golden girl past, and into the dark Neitzschean insolence of Sheila's artistic vision. As the solstice approaches and the evenings lengthen, together the women make a journey of intense friendship and sometimes frightening consequences.
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It is a tour de force ... Every subtle nuance of their friendship is chronicled with perception and compassion. The writing is superb, the narrative flow strong and the dialogue memorable (MARTYN GOFF, DAILY TELEGRAPH)
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A best-selling novel from one of America's finest writers joins the Virago Modern Classics. Film rights have recently been optioned by Merchant Ivory.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860494854
- ISBN 13 9781860494857
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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