The Tortoise And The Hare

<p><i>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.</i><br><br>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, <i>The Tortoise and the Hare</i> reveals that in affairs of the heart, the race is not always won by the swift - or the fair.<br><br><b>INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL</b><br> <b><br> 'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br> <b><br> 'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER</b><br> <b><br> 'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL</b></p>