Author:Charlotte Bingham
Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries.
'An engaging, romantic and nostalgic read' -- DAILY MAIL
'Compulsive reading... Bingham's prose is lively and vivid, making this a real page turner' -- GOOD BOOK GUIDE
"These are characters you will really care about" -- ***** Reader review
"Very enjoyable and hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review
"Incredibly well written and engrossing" -- ***** Reader review
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TWO PATHS, ONE DESTINATION...
When Alexandra Stamford goes to stay with her cousins at Knighton Hall she is very much the poor relation. Shortly after her return home, her father re-marries. No longer wanted, Alexandra is forced to become a maid-of-all-work for a Mrs Smithers who lives in a grand Regency house in the seaside town of Deanford.
It is here that handsome, funny Bob Atkins meets and falls in love with Alexandra...
Meanwhile Tom O'Brien, erstwhile stable lad at Knighton Hall, meets and falls for the beautiful Lady Florazel Compton who introduces him to the sophistications of 1950s London.
As Bob is conscripted for National Service, Alexandra plans her future, and in doing so discovers family secrets that have a devastating impact. Tragedy strikes, and it is only when Tom returns from New York to search out his old friend Bob Atkins' fiancée that Alexandra's life appears about to be truly transformed.
But the past seems destined to wreck the happiness of the present, as the glamorous Lady Florazel Compton is determined to re-capture her former love, destroying the magic hour of Tom's and Alexandra's meeting.
'An engaging, romantic and nostalgic read'
—— WENDY HOLDEN, DAILY MAIL'Compulsive reading... Bingham's prose is lively and vivid, making this a real page turner'
—— GOOD BOOK GUIDE'Not for maiden aunts - the sex scenes are quite explicit!'
—— Liverpool Daily PostEnough black laughs to keep you turning the pages.
—— Adrian Turpin , Financial TimesA fantastic debut from real-life PC Mike Thomas...Written with blistering brio and fantastic energy, this shows much promise.
—— Big IssueShe has a capacity in her novels for noting the little vanities and foibles, the revealing mannerisms and contradictions in human social behaviour, which often reminds one of Austen
—— David LodgeIf you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them
—— USA TodayAn ingenious, touching book
—— NewsweekA flawless jewel
—— Philadelphia InquirerForeign Affairs is probably Alison Lurie’s best novel to date, certainly it is a triumph, and much of its success stems from its accomplished plotting. Lurie has known from the first how to tell a story brilliantly through the consciousness of a woman who in type and circumstance resembles the author herself
—— Marilyn Butler , London Review of BooksThe first chapter is one of the most captivating in any recent novel I have read
—— New York Review of BooksLurie weaves a characteristically sharp-eyed, deftly ironic comedy of cultural collisions and collusions that rightly won her comparisons to Henry James and Edith Wharton
—— Sunday TimesI am convinced that Alison Lurie's fiction will long outlast that of many currently more fashionable names. There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy over the years. Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton
—— John Fowles , Sunday TimesA brilliant novel - her best I think. The book is a triumph, and not simply of style...Foreign Affairs is witty, acerbic, and sometimes fiendishly clever
—— Paul Bailey , Evening StandardWarm, clever and funny
—— Times Literary Supplement
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