In this second volume of heart thumping tales, listeners will be surreptitiously watching the door. For within it we discover that the contents of our lives are not always as faithful as we see them. Friends, lovers, neighbours and enemies we thought we had, the dark we thought we trusted. There are secrets and...
The novel opens in England in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapping narratives of her descendants. Among them are her daughter Evie, who becomes a professor of chemistry at Barnard College in the middle of the century and never marries...
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