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Emma Lingard lives in a calm English suburb with her husband Henry, while their tight-knit neighbors, Holly and Felix Craven, share a long friendship and marriage. Each couple believes they truly understand the other, perhaps more than themselves. Emma feels alone, haunted by private nightmares and dismissive of others. She confides in herself through a series of unsent, fantastical letters. When a sequence of crises begins to erode the fragile equilibrium of everyone’s lives, Emma is forced to face the vulnerability of her relationships and her own emotional interior. The novel explores how quiet domesticity can hide unspoken anxieties and how unexpected upheavals expose the fragile bonds that keep families together.
First publish date: 1968
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Nina Bawden
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