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Eighteen-year-old Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. Quintin, finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging into it.
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"Manning writes always with a poet's care for words." - Observer
"Olivia Manning has a wonderful and unfailing flair for describing both the atmosphere and the furniture of the world in which her people move." - Listener
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