Synopses & Reviews
Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a clandestine affair with Rickie; Madeleine, clam and resolute, has accepted that her marriage has been of limited success. Rickie's sudden death makes widows of both sisters in a novel that explores with extraordinary insight the sublimity, rivalry, and pain of personal relationships. Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was a Cambridge scholar; among her novels are the best-selling Dusty Answer, A Note in Music, Invitation to the Waltz, and its sequel, The Weather in the Streets. She remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the 20th century.