A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a youngh girl. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion and its destructive kernel of jealousy.
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The narrative of the obsession is told with great verve and conviction, from the first fortuitous encounter...to the open-ended conclusion
The key to the success of the book is its simplicity and unpretentiousness...makes convincing the disorderly and unreasoning passion of the orderly and reasoning man
It is a sexy book. It is a romantic book. Its heart is the dream of great passion
Vibrantly erotic...brave and searingly honest..compulsively gripping