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Synopsis
Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. The immaculate Julia organises her husband Hugh, a television personality, with the same efficiency with which she runs their lovely home and cherubic twins. Kate has lived with James Mallow, a retired teacher, for eight years, and although she refuses to marry him she is apparently devoted to him. Hugh and James, lifelong friends and now in their sixties, feel blessed indeed.
But the age difference cannot be ignored forever, and when the eccentric and fiercely independent elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor enters their lives--after James, absent-mindedly driving without his spectacles through the dark and rainy Oxford streets, knocks her off her bicycle--a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge. Kate begins to seek out friends of her own age, while Julia finds her own career blossoming just as her husband's is beginning its natural decline. The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface, and nothing will ever be quite the same again.
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"If you haven't yet read her, you have a treat in store"
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Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred on the domestic nuances and dilemmas of life in present-day England.
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- PublisherG K Hall Audio Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1560549033
- ISBN 13 9781560549031
- BindingAudio Cassette
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The Men & the Girls
Seller: Seagull Books, Hove, United Kingdom
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Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Complete and unabridged audiobook, narrated over 8 cassettes by Eleanor Bron. NOT ex-library. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Seller Inventory # 052989
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