INTRODUCED BY HELEN DUNMORE

Elizabeth Taylor's darkest novel... She writes with a sensuous richness of language that draws the reader down the most shadowy paths... Extremely beguiling. Taylor makes the living moment present, touchable, disturbing, enchanting - Helen Dunmore

Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secretary, and perhaps to spite of her friends, Camilla steps into an unlikely liaison with Richard Elton, a handsome, assured - and dangerous - liar.

Elizabeth Taylor's darkest novel is a skillful exploration of the danger we'll go to to avoid loneliness. Taylor is increasingly recognised as one of the best writers of the twentieth century, and this little-known novel displays her range admirably.

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• Publication Date: September 29, 2011
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• Print Length: 224 Pages
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