Description
| Product ID: | 9780330482981 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Love in Idleness |
| Authors: | Author: Charlotte Mendelson |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Orange shortlisted author's haunting debut about the pursuit of passion. <p>‘I loved it. The evocation of ennui and loneliness rings very true . . . great unexpected observations . . . very funny’<br><br> Lesley Glaister<br><br> Anna Raine is desperate: to escape Somerset, to evade her mother, and above all to find a model of adulthood on whom to base her future self. When Stella, her mother's reckless younger sister, offers her London flat, Anna’s buried curiosity about Stella quickly becomes fascination: dark secrets, she is certain, lie within her reach.<br><br> While by day Anna feigns efficient adulthood, by night she sinks into an increasingly heated world of discovery. As secrets rise to the surface she tries to focus on London – on anything other than her aunt. But the truth has its own momentum, and when Stella returns from Paris, something, or everything, is going to give . . .<br><br> ‘With her gift for light humour, Mendelson seems to be skipping across the surface. Then she’ll suddenly dive into a world of obsession’ Independent on Sunday<br><br> ‘A strange, stealthy, headily scented seethe of a book’ Ali Smith, Glasgow Herald</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-08-15 |
