When I went to purchase Godwin's latest book, "Flora: A Novel," one reviewer noted that the latest novel built on the treatment Godwin had given the girl/woman friendship in "The Finishing School." I hadn't even known about "The Finishing School" even though I've read many of Godwin's books. I fe...
A writer, Christina, who relies on her visual capacities, finds that she can hear her composer husband's voice after he dies. He had consistently accused her of not listening to him during their private cocktail hour every evening at five o'clock; she was still living consciously in the world of ...