Love and Friendship

<p><b>'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br><br>Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful rich and principled. However five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy despite her principles into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband a dull hard-working lecturer suspecting everyone but the right man sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship romance and the ties that bind.<br><br>'Lurie is and really is different. She writes with great elegance as frostily clear as the climate she describes; and with sharp intelligence piercing through every sentence. She is very funny as well' <i>Observer</i></p>