![]() ![]() In this novel, first published in 1964, Elizabeth Taylor skillfully and subtly demonstrates the terrible danger of self love, most deadly to those who live within its shadow ‘Here I am!’ Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. The be stilled suburban backwaters she sets out to explore shimmer in her books with the punishing clarity of a desert mirage. Her characters are real, people caught out by their own desires and decisions, and they demand our attention. One of the finest twentieth century English novelists, Elizabeth Taylor, like her contemporaries Graham Greene, Richard Yates, and Michelangelo Antonioni, was a connoisseur of the modern world’s forsaken zones. Love, it seems, is hardly designed to survive life. ![]() But things are not at all as they used to be. ![]() And then Vesey returns, the worse for wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened it cannot be denied. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. ![]() Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. ![]()
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