Divorced from Reality
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Book Overview
Charlotte Dean's disappointments in love and life have piled up over the years, until she finds herself living in a dour London flat and deriving a semblance of contentment from her job at a small private library - even though it means shutting her heart away. But when circumstances compel her to return home to the countryside to care for her niece, she is fearful of the tasks required of her, and what it will mean to open her heart once more. Can she meet the challenges ahead, and heal her loneliness, as she builds a life for herself and young Clementina?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0441950485
ISBN13:9780441950485
Release Date:January 1979
Publisher:Ace Books
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Thwarted love
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
When Clare's all-but-fiance returns from WWI totally cynical and nasty, she settles into spinsterhood, poverty, and loneliness. But after his disappearance she returns to the country to raise his daughter, and eventually comes to understand the deception that destroyed her lover. An unusually dark novel for Stevenson, it is extremely enjoyable and gripping. Written and set a bit earlier than most of books, it's interesting to see her show some poverty instead of all of the upper class British nobs with servants.
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