![]() ![]() (""Johnny doesn't get involved in people's lives, in fusses, in things he doesn't want to. And when Elizabeth returns to London to cope with her new home situation, she'll have more than enough excitement of her own: art school is a success taking on a job at an antique shop, she meets marvelous Johnny Stone-funny, charming, a gently satisfying lover for seven years. But troubles between parents and children begin to flower at the O'Connors'. (Aisling's hearty mum Eileen, married to hard-working shopkeeper Sean, is Violet's old school chum.) So Elizabeth happily joins the clan, away from her own jumpy home, where Violet is making plans to leave George for adoring Harry. Elizabeth White from London and Aisling O'Connor from Kilgarret, Ireland, become fast friends at ten-when Elizabeth's ""difficult, flighty"" mother Violet and moody, weak father George send her to stay in WW II safety with the O'Connors. It could be nature's way of preventing people from enjoying themselves too much while on earth."" And certainly the matings in this luxuriantly gossipy tale (set in London and an Irish village, 1940-1960) are models of mis-matches-with partners loving too much, too little, or the wrong way entirely. ![]()
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