On a September day in 1942, Stella, attractive, desirable, but
dogged by the failure of a early marriage, learns that her lover,
Robert, may be a spy. Himself a casualty of Dunkirk. Robert is
being shadowed by Harrison, a man who on his own admission has
never been loved. Three people: each in their own way prevented
from commitment to the future by the uncertainty of a fractured
present. So the sinister Harrison may be prepared to bargain for
Robert's freedom but is Stella willing to pay his price? An
insidiously penetrating investigation into the obscure motives that
dictate human behaviour, this haunting story speaks of the author's
debt to Henry James. Yet much of its source deriving directly from
her own experience - she began it while the bombs were still
falling in 1944. Written with cool lyricism, the envy of many a
contemporary writer and immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece when
published in 1949, it is one of the finest novels of the last
century finding relevance beyond its time not the least for its
extraordinary powerful evocation of wartime London. (Kirkus UK)
On the face of it the story is about a woman who is given reason to suspect that the man with whom she is in love is betraying his country Another man is on his track, and a triangular situation develops. All the elements of a hunter-and-hunted thriller are here, but what she makes of them is an internal drama of remarkable perception and understanding in a domestic setting in embattled London.
Her imagineative interpretation of the effect of war on the manners, morals and emotions of those not directly engaged in the fighting is drawn from an uncannily poignant recall of the wartime London scene.
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