- This topic is empty.
-
Posts
-
-
Set in the 1950s, The Eloquence of Desire explores how a family struggles with conflicted relationships in a hostile environment.
Well-researched, the story told by Amanda Sington-Williams unfolds as George is posted to the tropics in punishment for an affair with the daughter of his boss. His wife, Dorothy, constrained by social norms, begrudgingly accompanies him while their 12 year old child Susan is packed off to boarding school.
Desire and fantasy mix with furtive visits, lies and despair to wreck the family with Dorothy becoming a recluse, George taking a new lover, and Susan punishing herself through self harm.
The Eloquence of Desire is written in Sington-Williams’ haunting prose.
If you loved this post and you would want to receive details with regards to Romance|Women’s Fiction|Historical Novel assure visit the web-page.
-
