Book description
>Constance Liddell, in her mid-forties, answers a personal column ad
- Polish gentleman, 50s, political refugee, seeks intellectual woman
for marriage - and arranges to meet Iwo Zaluski. For Constance, her
work, children, friends and friendship with her charming, philandering
ex-husband only sometimes alleviate the deeper longing for intimacy and
marriage. Meeting Iwo Zaluski for the first time, on a walk on Hampstead
Heath, she perceives in him the loneliness of a fellow exile. Too
rapidly, she falls in love.>
>Constance Liddell, in her mid-forties, answers a personal column
ad - Polish gentleman, 50s, political refugee, seeks intellectual woman
for marriage - and arranges to meet Iwo Zaluski. For Constance, her
work, children, friends and friendship with her charming, philandering
ex-husband only sometimes alleviate the deeper longing for intimacy and
marriage. Meeting Iwo Zaluski for the first time, on a walk on Hampstead
Heath, she perceives in him the loneliness of a fellow exile. Too
rapidly, she falls in love.>
