An English spa town in 1935 is made famous by an American novel: a love-story. Three years later, a young married actress travels there alone and finds the love-story itself, as she falls passionately in love with a young English man. Then, in the present, history seems to repeat itself when an English girl, haunted by the novel, visits the town and falls in love with a young archaeologist working there, and the tragic secrets of the pre-war love-affair are finally revealed.
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In this intelligent and poetically charged novel about the nature of continuity and repetition, Clark captures the loneliness of romantic love
This is an intense, heady and filigree-woven novel of passion and subtle connections and Clark writes in careful, tension-building prose