Love and Friendship: Alison Lurie

`A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight` Sunday Telegraph

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband, a dull, hard-working lecturer, suspecting everyone but the right man, sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy`s most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind.