Product Description
In 1914 they had been 11 years old; three girls at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the newspapers to find the other two - Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy and correct.
From the Back Cover
“Triumphant . . . the funniest of Miss Bowen’s novels.” —
The Times (London)
“This story is poetic in its awareness, its stimulus, its beauty of writing; and as full of clues, hints and half-revealed secrets as any thriller.” —
The Scotsman (Edinburgh)
“Bowen so thoroughly knows the world she is writing about that she contrives to appear to convey it to us whole. Her fictional insight is made solid by sound psychological insight.” –
The New York Times
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
