Description
A widow on the brink of remarriage finds her hopes entangled with doubt when her mother’s suspicions about the groom begin to surface—alongside the claims of other women drawn into his orbit. As relationships tighten and reputations fray, a charming conman’s carefully arranged world starts to reveal the small cruelties and private reckonings that have been waiting beneath everyday manners. With William Trevor’s characteristic precision, the novel traces how desire, deception, and social performance can corrode judgment, leaving emotional damage that is both intimate and lasting. Blending sharp psychological insight with a quietly devastating sense of inevitability, it explores themes of manipulation, moral blindness, and the fragile line between love and self-destruction.
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paperback
Bodley Head
Published Jan 1, 1980
242 pages
ISBN: 0370303121
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First Published
1980
Language
eng
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