The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter but the emotional texture of married life is made
up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality. Imogen the beautiful
and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham is facing the greatest
challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox competent middle-aged and
tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to
Imogen's increasing disbelief she may be succeeding. With exquisite elegance and irony The
Tortoise and the Hare reveals that in affairs of the heart the race is not always won by the
swift - or the fair. INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL 'The perfection of its tone and prose is
matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sinister so enchantingly
written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER 'A subtle and beautiful book . .
. Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY
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