McNally Jackson Books Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady

From the brilliant forgotten novelist behind the ferocious Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young womans unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun. Miranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. Hes a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English ingénue. But when Louis is called away to a shoot, Miranda is left alone with her baby in the remote Italian countrysideuntil a young Italian named Oreste arrives, claiming to have been invited by her now-absent husband. Miranda quickly falls under the interlopers spelland into his armslaunching into a feverish affair that threatens to dissolve her already fragile, fracturing sense of self. As events spiral further out of her control, the novel hurtles headlong toward its horrifying conclusion. Written in the same limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic (Harpers Magazine) as Lord Jim at Home, Dinah Brookes transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971. Autorid: Dinah Brooke, Emma Cline