&#146Times are changed with him who marries there are no more bypath meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.&#146 So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Christine felt bound to agree. &#146My wife can do anything,&#146 Vinson said. Even if &#146anything&#146 meant getting used to the size and pace of his country, America? Wearing a sycophantic smile for the wife of Admiral Hamer (who wore patentleather shoes like bananas) Because Vin hoped to be promoted? Having a cold Turkey and a cold ham at every party? Smiling through The inevitable silences of marriage? Was Vinson what she really wanted? Even on the cold, bleak days when nothing went right, the crazy neighbour called while Captain Decker was having cocktails, Vin&#146s mother had an appendectomy during a thunderstorm, she lost out on the TV quiz and she and Vin quarreled Bitterly?In No More Meadows, Monica Dickens unravels the threads of a very real marriage, with her inimitable warmth and sense of idiosyncratic character.

Binding: Paperback;434 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 766 g; Dimensions: 234 x 154 x 27

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