Charmed Circle - Softcover

Gaskin, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380707780 ISBN 13: 9780380707782

Publisher: Avon Books, 1990

Synopsis

The three daughters of a renowned British actor--Julia, Constance, and Alex--find love and fulfillment, as well as a potentially devastating crisis, during the World War II years

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Gaskin scored with the bestselling The Ambassador's Women , but her lengthy new novel is uninspired and forgettable despite her characters' requisite trappings of fame and extravagance. The charmed circle of the Seymour family tantalizes outsiders, but those within it suffer tragedy. During WW II, Sir Michael Seymour, a renowned actor on the London stage, loses his wife, a concert pianist, when a fighter plane crashes into their home in southeast England. The RAF pilot bails out, saved, it seems, for a contrived, starry-eyed marriage with one of the Seymour daughters, Julia, a budding actress. When their idyll ends tragically, the young widow retires to her husband's crumbling Scottish castle to bear their son. Julia's sister, Alex, a talented journalist, learns that her husband has died in a Japanese prison camp, and takes up with a powerful newspaper mogul; only Connie, the third sister, has the common touch, choosing love with a stolid civil servant over a career of her own. After Julia marries an American movie star with a bad temper and a history of abuse, their glittering lives turn into a protracted nightmare. Overpadding smothers what little passion surfaces here. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0380707780
• ISBN 13: 9780380707782
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 615