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The charming, childish wife of a successful lawyer, falls asleep one afternoon on her Victorian chaise longue, recently purchased in an antique shop, and awakes in the fetid atmosphere of an ugly, over-furnished room she has never seen before. This is the story of a trip backward in time in which a nostalgia for the quaint turns into a hideous nightmare.
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About the Author:
Marghanita Laski was born in 1915 to a family of Jewish intellectuals in Manchester; Harold Laski, the socialist thinker, was her uncle. She is the author of six novels and a celebrated critic. She wrote books on Jane Austen and George Eliot and two books on the nature of ecstasy. She died in 1988.
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"Fans of historical suspense genre will find this novel a cut above the rest." — Kliatt
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0345210670
- ISBN 13 9780345210678
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages125
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