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Love's Shadow (Paperback)
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Ada Leverson's second novel is a delightful and witty tangle of
love and attraction at cross-purposes. Edith Ottley and Hyacinth
Verney are two young Edwardian women, old schoolfriends, with love
trouble on their hands. But it is trouble of a vastly differing
nature. Edith is married to Bruce, a youngish Foreign Office clerk.
Bruce is an extraordinary man, at least in his own estimation
Constantly upbraiding Edith peevishly about her lack of
understanding of him, prey to hypochondria of all kinds, convinced
of his own pre-eminence in all he undertakes, he is completely
unaware of his family's and indeed the world's barely patient
toleration of his foibles. Edith, for all that she finds him
impossible, somehow loves him. Hyacinth is in a tricky situation.
She is madly in love with a handsome young man-about-town, Cecil
Reeve, who is himself fascinated by a glamorous widow, Eugenia
Raymond, who enjoys his company but not in that way. When Eugenia
agrees to marry none other than Cecil's uncle, Lord Selsey, the
horrified Cecil is encouraged to fall back upon the adoration that
Hyacinth provides. But Cecil and Eugenia's continuing proximity
means that the scene is set for jealousy, misunderstanding and
potential disaster, with hilarious results. Ada Leverson wrote
three novels featuring Edith and Bruce Ottley, of which this is the
first. Her deceptively light and seemingly frivolous style masks
here a worldly and stylish investigation into the terms of true
love, and the pursuit of love's shadow. This brilliant comedy was
first published in 1908.
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