The High Road

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Very Good DJ. DJ slightly ruffled at the edges. Pages gently age-tanned.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 9” x 5¾” (0.5 kg); 180pp; A rich, passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival. A Spanish seaside enclave finds many women trying to pacify their memories. The imperious Iris, no longer young; Charlotte, the glittering debutante whose thirst for life has driven her to bitter withdrawal; and Anna, the wounded narrator, who senses in the young Spanish girl Catalina a rare chance to defy the ravages of time and find a renewal of hope. But the landscape of the heart is laid with mines, and new dangers attend on new loves. ISBN: 9780297794936 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #160609|| Condition: