LOVE LIFE OF A CHELTENHAM LADY

by Dinah Brooke ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 26, 1971

A short season of desire visualized with some intensity against the dry and dusty brilliance of its Tuscan landscape while Miss Brooke's first novel cedes to its contrasts and, perhaps without inviting any sympathy, encroaches. In the village of Volterra, Miranda is enjoying the protected, self-contained existence of new wife-and-motherhood with Lewis, a film actor, and the infant which made the marriage necessary. But Lewis leaves for a short job on a film and Miranda runs off with Oreste, a young Italian (and the baby in a carrycot), both apparently pursued by the furies of lust which they indulge to no mean degree on the way to visiting his aging, ailing parents. But finally Miranda returns to Lewis and her senses although it is too late to avoid the terrible consequences. Throughout Miranda is almost faceless, even nameless (she becomes the Englishwoman, the mother) as if her identity were altogether voided by the sensory abandonment which contributes to the close, charged, brittle, heedless and headlong impact of the novel.

Pub Date: Oct. 26, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION