Gutwrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of womans desperate quest for freedom.Im thirty, and Im stuckArabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for selfactualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, selfconscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable?Back in print after many decades, this is an outstanding novel by an extraordinary and littleknown writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks.Salted with wit and peppered with clever images GuardianAt their best, the novels are feats of Tonkss earlier personality, shining and acrid in its fierce hotblooded sulkiness the glittering triumph of an unscathable ego London Review of BooksWriting like thisis far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky postWar grays, the lurking sexual violence of London Michael Hoffman, Poetry Foundation

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FC; Weight: 272 g; Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 15

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