Charlotte Street

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Connie, a chef, and her husband Julián, an architect, are wealthy, sophisticated and in control, and yet seem bored by their lives. Lucy and Mark are respectively unemployed and self-employed, financially unstable and chaotic, but lead loving lives. Both couples appear to have it all - the secure - marriage, the nice house, and a quiverful of children... But increasingly Lucy and Connie find that having it all leaves them with very little. Meet two couples, friends and neighbours in Borsétfor years... In a moment of pure impulse the two couples discuss buying a London fiat together in Charlotte Street, a luxury Lucy and Mark can ill afford. But the potential of the fiat promises different things to each of them - a good investment; an overnight base for work; and best of all, a bolt-hole from domesticity, a chance to reinvigorate tired relationships. It all seems very straightforward. Connie is all set to cook up a storm in Charlotte Street, but cautious Lucy is the hardest to... Tovább

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Connie, a chef, and her husband Julián, an architect, are wealthy, sophisticated and in control, and yet seem bored by their lives. Lucy and Mark are respectively unemployed and self-employed, financially unstable and chaotic, but lead loving lives. Both couples appear to have it all - the secure - marriage, the nice house, and a quiverful of children... But increasingly Lucy and Connie find that having it all leaves them with very little. Meet two couples, friends and neighbours in Borsétfor years... In a moment of pure impulse the two couples discuss buying a London fiat together in Charlotte Street, a luxury Lucy and Mark can ill afford. But the potential of the fiat promises different things to each of them - a good investment; an overnight base for work; and best of all, a bolt-hole from domesticity, a chance to reinvigorate tired relationships. It all seems very straightforward. Connie is all set to cook up a storm in Charlotte Street, but cautious Lucy is the hardest to persuade. When she finally decides to throw caution to the wind, she has no notion what the winds will throw back at her... 'Juliette Mead really knows her stuff... she writes with rare and moving ínsight' 'A writer well worth watching...[Mead] gives the narrative a post-modernist tweak, playíng guessing games with her readers and stepping back from the characters to reveal them in an unexpeeted light. The result is a book which is challenging, building to a quite thunderous closing paragraph' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Praise for Juliette Mead: EXPRESS ON SUNDAY Vissza