The Garrick Year Author:Margaret Drabble If there was such a thing as justifiable adultery, Emma Evans was about to commit it. Exiled to the provinces for the sake of her actor-husband's "art", Emma was stuck at home with two small children and the suspicion that David's interest in a lovely and untalented actress was neither pure nor professional. She was prepared for a season of exqu... more »isite boredom and mounting resentment. She was not, however, prepared for the irresistible advances of Wyndham Farrar, her husband's director and the man she hoped (and feared) would be her lover ....
A sly, sharp comedy of erotic errors, 'The Garrick Year' glosses the difference between modern love and modern marriage with wit and sophistication.« less