LOVE AND LONELINESS.
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Nobody has mentioned that this book is concerned with love and loneliness and lesbianism.
Arabella, who prefers to be called Arbell, enters the lives of a couple who are so intimately bound up with each other that it would require an act of great temerity to break in, but Arabella does so and successfully inveigles herself into their lives, by buying presents and gradually making herself fairly indispensable.
It causes a huge shake up of their marriage until choices have to be made and that is for the reader to find out.
Do buy it, it's Elizabeth Jane Howard at her early best and well worth reading.
Val De Beer.
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Odd Girl Out
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Great story, intelligently written. Great script, more please.
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Elizabeth jane howard is the best writer around
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I started this book in a really jaded mood as I had given up about six previous novels in a row as I couldn't get into any of them. If I havn't got a book on the go I'm a real grump to live with! So it was with some relief(especially for my family)that I picked this one up.I've been a great fan of EJH's since I read about the Cazalets and since then I have found no one to better her writing.This was a lovely book,once again full of delightful descriptions about where people live and the food thet eat.When you finish any of her books you always miss the characters because she makes them seem so real.Anyway needless to say that when I finished this book.I no longer felt jaded and often look back fondly at it.
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