Book description
>Surrounding this central figure are a host of marvelously realised
characters - Sir Geoffrey Haslam, Harriet s husband, an innocent
self-deluder; Dominic Spong, a hypocrite whose platitudes do not quite
conceal his powerful self-interest; Agatha Calkin whose benevolent
maternalism nearly hides the greediest of drives towards power; Lady
Hardistry, the most outrageously witty of all sophisticates; Camilla
Christy, a loose woman, dazzling, charming, and corrupt. Unlike Harriet
Haslam, who will not spare herself the truth, the others are happier
with their lies and can never achieve Harriet s grandeur.>
>Surrounding this central figure are a host of marvelously realised
characters - Sir Geoffrey Haslam, Harriet s husband, an innocent
self-deluder; Dominic Spong, a hypocrite whose platitudes do not quite
conceal his powerful self-interest; Agatha Calkin whose benevolent
maternalism nearly hides the greediest of drives towards power; Lady
Hardistry, the most outrageously witty of all sophisticates; Camilla
Christy, a loose woman, dazzling, charming, and corrupt. Unlike Harriet
Haslam, who will not spare herself the truth, the others are happier
with their lies and can never achieve Harriet s grandeur.>
