A Loving Mistress

A loving mistress

Friedman, Rosemary

Literature & Fiction

V. Gollancz

Rose of Jericho

Gollancz

Clare de Cluzac seems to have it all she could ever want - but underneath her confident exterior lie the scars of an emotionally brutalised childhood. When her authoritarian, philandering father threatens to sell the family château and vineyards, Clare takes a big risk and flies to Bordeaux to run them herself, even though she will have to learn everything from scratch...

Vintage

Contemporary

Simon & Schuster Canada

Literary

Simon&Schuster

Proofs of affection

Morrow

Proofs Of Affection (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

Ulverscroft

Kitty’s husband Sydney is dead, and eighteen months later she is still struggling to come to terms with his death. She takes comfort in the lives of her children, and the full comedy and crises of Kitty’s circle of family and friends vividly unfold. On a package holiday to Israel, in between  awe-inspiring visits to the Dead Sea and the dramatic desert, she gets to know Maurice Morgenthau, reserved New Yorker and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. The friendship between them grows and Maurice helps Kitty gain a new sense of perspective on her life. In turn Kitty helps Maurice tell his harrowing story of survival for the first time.

Rose Of Jericho (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

To Live In Peace (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

Rosemary Friedman signs off a long and successful writing career with Final Draft, a perceptive, moving and frequently witty collection of essays on what it means to be human. Throughout the author’s observations on such seminal subjects as truth, beauty, love, war and death, counterbalanced by the pleasures of walking in the park, lying in the bath or recalling her grandmother’s chicken soup, the reader will recognize the spirit of the sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne. Using her métier, Friedman skilfully recreates a world of impressions on topics as diverse as sex, travel, music and kindness; elsewhere she observes how a close scrutiny of people’s hands and the way they employ them reveals their owners’ secrets. She comments on the use of the cliché, our preoccupation with the cyberworld and the current obsession with ‘clean eating’, from the point of view of one who grew up during wartime rationing. She does not shrink from addressing such issues as growing old, failing health and the overwhelming sense of grief and loss engendered by the death of loved ones. She concludes that, although we are not all able to leave an imprint upon the sands of time, one should embrace a wide range of experience and develop a balance of hope over despair. When we come to the end of this sagacious and insightful ‘final draft’ we realize that we know both the world – and ourselves – a little better.

Final Draft: Reflections on a Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Peter Owen Publishers

One year in the life of a London Jewish family at a time of great change: Sydney Shelton’s business is not doing too well these days, but he has provided for his future and his worries are not about trade but about his own health and his children, now young adults. Sydney’s wife Kitty knows how ill he is – but they cannot talk about it. The children openly flout tradition and go against his wishes. What will happen to them if he dies? With a light satirical touch and great sensitivity, Rosemary Friedman explores the tensions and deeper feelings of a traditional family facing the pressures of change in a non-religious society. A thoughtful and moving novel.

Proofs of Affection

House of Stratus Ltd

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