A Young Wife's Tale

1974

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Hogarth Press

Cover Design by John Sutcliffe

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It all began on the golden July day when the hairdresser's blew up in Santa Vilga, a Tuscan port where Julia an dMark Forster were on holiday. It was then that Julia first saw thelean and elegant Contessa Renata, and the Contessa first laid eyes on Mark.

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Mark is an advertising consultant with ambitions to be a composer of electronic music, an art in which the Contessa professes a keen interest. She could undoubtedly make him into a celebrity, for she owns newspapers, a film studio and a recording company , and is the power behind a number of other thrones. But the Contessa is a hard task-master, exacting a twenty-four hour devotion from her proteges, and so Julia must go home to London alone.

 

What follows is a lively and sympathetic study of a lonely woman whose husband has been called abroad on business. However, this young wife's tale is by no means finished. There is more, much more to come...​

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