Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady - Brooke, Dinah
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From the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a devastating account of the sexual awakening of a young English woman while on an Italian holiday gone awry, underneath an unforgiving Tuscan sun. Miranda, her husband Louis, and their baby daughter are supposed to be spending the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He’s a self-assured young American actor. She’s a well-educated and well-bred English ingénu. Shortly after they arrive, though, Louis is unexpectedly called back to London. Abandoned in the middle of the Italian countryside with…mehr

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From the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a devastating account of the sexual awakening of a young English woman while on an Italian holiday gone awry, underneath an unforgiving Tuscan sun. Miranda, her husband Louis, and their baby daughter are supposed to be spending the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He’s a self-assured young American actor. She’s a well-educated and well-bred English ingénu. Shortly after they arrive, though, Louis is unexpectedly called back to London. Abandoned in the middle of the Italian countryside with her baby, Miranda’s increasingly fraught solitude is disturbed by the arrival of a handsome young Italian. His name is Oreste—an actor from Rome, invited by her husband. Miranda immediately falls under his spell, and into his arms. Their tempestuous, frenzied affair awakens within her a sexuality of which she was previously unaware. But it also unleashes something fateful and violent, setting events in motion that send the novel hurtling—“close, charged, brittle, heedless and headlong” (Kirkus)—toward its horrifying conclusion. Written in the same glittering, knife sharp prose as her acclaimed novel Lord Jim at Home, Dinah Brooke’s transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971.
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Dinah Brooke left Cheltenham Ladies’ College at sixteen to go to Paris, where she studied sculpture and Greek. She read English at Oxford, attended film school in London, briefly worked for a documentary film company, and spent a year in Greenwich Village. Back in London, she married, had twins, and, in the early 1970s, published four critically acclaimed novels, including Lord Jim at Home, which is also published by McNally Editions. In 1975, she took sannyas, was given the new name Ma Prem Pankaja by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and lived for the next six years in his ashram in Poona, India. She returned to London in 1981, where she lives today.