Described as 'A Novel of Friendship', this book charts the lives of
three very different women, all born in 1940, who meet in the 1960s
in a mental hospital in England. Fay, a visiting doctor, is a
Jewish American; Connie, a beautiful, tempestuous Irish girl, is
recovering from a traumatic love affair; while Nina, a married
middle-class Englishwoman, has an obsession with cleanliness and
has to keep washing her hands. The three women become unlikely
friends and over the years their friendship deepens although they
do not often see each other. In letters they pour out their
feelings and support each other. Each of them is searching for
happiness and not all of them find it, although each, in her own
way, eventually finds contentment, if not ecstatic happiness, with
her chosen partner. Nina is desperate to paint and the men in her
life always have to take second place; Fay leaves her work as a
doctor to sets up her own business; Connie becomes a successful
journalist although her articles grow more and more outrageous. Her
career peaks with the publication of a feminist book but she
ultimately decides she wants to be a wife and mother. Throughout
their lives the three women remain close, ready to fly, literally,
to whichever of their friends needs support. The threads of their
lives are skilfully woven together over 40 years from the 1960s to
the end of the century, when tragedy overtakes them and the loose
ends of the plot are sewn into the completed tapestry of the book.
The atmosphere of each setting is enhanced by evocative detail as
the reader is drawn more and more into the lives of these
fascinating women. (Kirkus UK)
Three women, born at the outbreak of World War II, who've grown up
in widely differing circumstances, form an improbable friendship
that sustains them through forty years. Connie is the youngest
member of a large Irish family and Ireland's too small to contain
her. She is beautiful and impulsive. Men love her, while she roars
through life, never looking before she leaps - sometimes onto
rocks. Nina is English and middle-class, the shy, thoughtful,
daughter of an army officer. She marries her boyhood love and has
two children before realising how unfulfilled she is, and that
painting is her true passion. Fay is American and Jewish, the
granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. She's the ambitious one, who
fulfils her dream of becoming a doctor before admitting a darker,
more complex side to her nature. Through love, marriage, children,
work, divorce and tragedy, this is a beautifully written and
compelling novel of friendship.
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