Description
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair that ends in a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery finds herself facing an unfamiliar kind of solitude—one that begins in the quiet, unsettling corridors of a hospital. As she navigates recovery and the small social dramas around her, her wit and self-awareness turn everyday encounters into a finely observed comedy of manners. With William Trevor’s characteristic tenderness and precision, the novel explores loneliness, reinvention, and the complicated ways people try to make sense of desire, duty, and regret. Both intimate and sharply humane, it offers a lived-in emotional realism that lingers long after the final page.
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paperback
Bodley Head
Published Jan 1, 1973
336 pages
ISBN: 0370014936
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First Published
1972
Language
eng
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