Charlie's Smile

<p>In this amazing love story d'Iffinger challenges us to re-evaluate previously accepted norms and even taboos as we follow the broad cast of characters through the moral maze that is life and love in the twenty-first century.</p><p>The story is told by one of the two principal characters Nathan so the reader is intimately involved throughout and neither bystander or voyeur.</p><p>Nathan's family is English upper-middle class and some of the story is set on the family yacht based in the western Mediterranean which may be of particular interest to sailors and would-be sailors alike.</p><p>We experience life through Nathan's eyes both the ecstasy and the tragedy that will test the reader's emotions to the limit.</p><p>D'Iffinger confronts the explicit nature of love's sexual aspects with honesty and sensitivity yet does not resort to any crudeness of language.</p><p>Would your maiden aunt enjoy this book?</p><p>You might well be surprised!</p>