- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (20 Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006498701
- ISBN-13: 978-0006498704
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 3.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,631,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Beattie's lover Max has given her a very special birthday present - a weekend at England's most exclusive health farm. But if he had known what was to happen there, he would have bought her a diamond instead. For thirty-year-old Beattie,, who has always fancied men, suddenly finds herself attracted to a woman - a woman twenty years older, a grandmother, even. Her initial infatuation crupts into a passion which threatens to take over her life as, desperately, she seeks admission into Elizabeth's inner sanctum - her work as a psychotherapist, her family, her very soul.
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Beattie’s lover Max has given her a very special birthday present – a weekend at England’s most exclusive health farm. But if he had known what was to happen there, he would have bought her a diamond instead. For thirty year old Beattie, who has always fancied men, suddenly finds herself attracted to a woman – a woman twenty years older, a grandmother, even. Her initial infatuation erupts into a passion which threatens to take over her life as, desperately, she seeks admission into Elizabeth’s inner sanctum – her work as a psychotherapist, her family, her very soul.
Wendy’s Perriam’s genius at putting ordinary people into extraordinary situations is seen to brilliant effect in this intriguing story of obsession, sexual confusion and, ultimately, redemption, as Beattie moves beyond jealousy to forgiveness and self fulfilment.
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