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Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady
From the "brilliant forgotten novelist" behind the "ferocious" Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing...
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From the "brilliant forgotten novelist" behind the "ferocious" Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young woman's unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.
Miranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He's a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English ingénue. But when Louis is called away to a shoot, Miranda is left alone with her baby in the remote Italian countryside--until a young Italian named Oreste arrives, claiming to have been invited by her now-absent husband.
Miranda quickly falls under the interloper's spell--and into his arms--launching into a feverish affair that threatens to dissolve her already fragile, fracturing sense of self. As events spiral further out of her control, the novel hurtles headlong toward its horrifying conclusion.
Written in the same "limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic" (Harper's Magazine) as Lord Jim at Home, Dinah Brooke's transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971.
Author: Dinah Brooke
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.43h x 4.96w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781961341647
About the Author
Brooke, Dinah: - Dinah Brooke left Cheltenham Ladies' College at sixteen to go to Paris, where she studied sculpture and Greek. She read English at Oxford, attended film school in London, briefly worked for a documentary film company, and spent a year in Greenwich Village. Back in London, she married, had twins, and, in the early 1970s, published four critically acclaimed novels, including Lord Jim at Home, which is also published by McNally Editions. In 1975, she took sannyas, was given the new name Ma Prem Pankaja by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and lived for the next six years in his ashram in Poona, India. She returned to London in 1981, where she lives today.Cline, Emma: - Emma Cline is the author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy, and The Guest. The
winner of the Plimpton Prize, Cline was also named one of Granta's Best
Young American Novelists. In 2021, she won an O. Henry Prize for "White
Noise," and is a 2024 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
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