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A sensible life

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She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language.

Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926 - leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures - Flora was a ten-year-old misfit.

Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was - peripherally - included in their gracious circles. And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love - with Cosmo - with Hubert - with Felix.

It took forty years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated, and finally resolved.

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Vintage
0099499134 / 9780099499138
Paperback / softback
823.914
01/06/2006
United Kingdom
English
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379 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Transworld, 1990.
A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men
A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)