Time To Dance
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a youngh girl. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion and its destructive kernel of jealousy.
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A punctilious, retired English banker in his mid-50s falls obsessively in love with a spunky 18-year-old Irish girl, Bernadette Kennedy. To his amazement, his mad passion is reciprocated. For the nameless narrator, the affair represents ``one last chance for love,'' an escape from tending to his bedridden wife, Angela. For Bernadette, brainy but a dropout, their clandestine companionship and long lovemaking sessions in England's Lake District help to overcome the trauma of having been raped at age 13. Bragg, novelist ( The Maid of Buttermere ) and biographer of Richard Burton, weakens this partly epistolary novel by telling most of it through the voice of the self-centered, self-deluding narrator. When the affair comes crashing down to earth as several ironies separate the lovers, the quirky story is transformed into something deeply touching, tragic, heartfelt and fine.
