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Veronica's group of friends are well-to-do professionals, intent on keeping up a charade of well-being and success. On the surface everything is fine: Julian and Veronica get married; Teddy tells good jokes; Gloria chases men. Trouble brews, however, when the sinister Katherine Vermont becomes obsessed with the deceitful activities of her ex-lover, Julian. The tragedy that finally erupts shows the high price that can be paid for emotional dishonesty -- to oneself as well as to others.
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About the Author
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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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0340624493
- ISBN 13 9780340624494
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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