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Julian and Veronica's wedding brings their friends together, forces them to re-examine their lives, and leads a few of them to desperate measures
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Amanda Brookfield gained a First Class Honours Degree from Oxford before working at an advertising agency for several years. She wrote her first novel while living in Buenos Aires with her diplomat husband, and her second while in Washington, D.C. She has two young sons and now lives in London and divides her time between writing fiction and looking after her family.
From Publishers Weekly
London writer Brookfield's second comedy of manners (after Alice Alone ) introduces a vexatious group of people too self-absorbed to recognize the emotional needs of their closest friends. Playboy Julian Blake weds Veronica Kembleton, but his rugby teammates-- bachelors Teddy, George and Peter-- rightly predict his dissatisfaction with marriage. Within a year, Julian is involved in an affair with a woman to whom he confesses details of a meaningless homosexual fling he'd had with Teddy. Little does Julian suspect that this relationship was all but casual to depressed, alcoholic Teddy--nor that his outwardly flawless ex-girlfriend Katherine has been spying on him and is plotting revenge. Selfish Julian, dutiful Veronica, lovesick Teddy and mentally unstable Katherine embody only one-dimensional roles in this uninventive soap opera. A third-person narrator offers redundant asides warning of the dangers implicit in even the most comfortable existences, while Julian et al., thanks to their remarkable insensitivity, manage to weather the tragedies that befall them and get back to business-as-usual. Brookfield's astringent prose often falls as flat as the characters whose lives she dissects.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0312053991
- ISBN 13 9780312053994
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages206
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