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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is also a warm companion, their bond immediate. And they soon, inevitably, are lovers. Clinging to each other as though their...