Playboy c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) and an ode to the

and an ode to the enduring power of memory

this is a mesmerising act of historical imagining by one of the most popular novelists at work today

I had the overwhelming urge to just start it all over again' 'There are some stories you read and enjoy but every so often you come across one that just obliterates everything and takes over your entire being within a few pages and becomes your world and personality

they celebrate a sense of wonder at nature's power to amaze

ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781800782891

Playboy c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) and an ode to theAt the age of forty three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re emerge as an out lesbian and a writer. In a series of short, sharp vignettes, the narrator describes her first female lovers a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior punctuated by encounters with her ex husband, her father and her son. Looking at the world through fresh eyes, she