| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
287 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them... -- Publisher's description |
| Subject |
London (England) -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Mothers -- Fiction.
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Wives -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Psychological.
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FICTION / Family Life / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780063137776 (hardcover) |
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0063137771 (hardcover) |
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