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The Tortoise and the Hare (Virago Modern Classics)
The Tortoise and the Hare - Virago Modern Classics Author:Elizabeth Jenkins The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, fifty-two, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life can offer: a gracious home; a beautiful, devoted younger wife; a son who adores him. Their neighbor, Blanche Silcox, is a plain, tweed-wearing woman of fifty who rides, shoots, fishes, and drives a Rolls-Royce in every way the opposi... more »te of his wife. Their world is conventional country life at its most idyllic: how can its gentle surfaces be disturbed? A love story with a difference, subtly demonstrating that in affairs of the heart, the race is not necessarily to the swift or fair.« less