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The Lost Properties of Love (Hardcover)
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The Lost Properties of Love (Hardcover)
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List price R532
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You Save R141 (27%)
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What if you could tell the truth about who you are, without risking
losing the one you love? This is a book about love affairs and why
we choose to have them; a book for anyone who has ever loved and
wondered what it is all about. This is a book about the things we
hide from other people. Love affairs, grief, domestic strife and
the mess at the bottom of your handbag. Part memoir, part imagined
history, in The Lost Properties of Love, Sophie Ratcliffe combines
her own experience of childhood bereavement, a past lover, the
reality about motherhood and marriage, with undiscovered stories
about Tolstoy and trains, handbags and honeymoons to muse on the
messiness of everyday life. An extended train journey frames the
action - and the author turns not to self-help manuals but to the
fictions that have shaped our emotional and romantic landscape.
Readers will find themselves propelled into Anna Karenina's world
of steam, commuting down the Northern Line, and checking out a New
York El-train with Anthony Trollope's forgotten muse, Kate Field.
As scenes in her own life collide with the stories of real and
imaginary heroines, The Lost Properties of Love asks how we might
find new ways of thinking about love and intimacy in the
twenty-first century. Frank and painfully funny, this contemporary
take on Brief Encounter - told to a backing track of classic 80s
songs- is a compelling look at the workings of the human heart.
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