I started out enjoying the prose in this book, but language alone can't carry a novel. It's hard to believe this is the same authoress who wrote such action-packed children's stories. Sharp didn't seem to know where she was going in this book. The title character is interesting at first, and then...
The Nutmeg Tree charts the fortunes of Julia, a middle aged former actress who retains her gleeful love of life and all it has to offer. Her enthusiasm and warmth has got her into trouble before in her youth, not least when she finds herself swiftly become pregnant, married and widowed in the sp...
A middle-aged couple in love must end their relationship, as Harry is forced by the failure of his business to leave his mistress to marry his business partner's daughter. King Hal and his Spanish Rose, as they see each other and, through each other's eyes, themselves, thereafter pine miserably ...
Antoinette is an "innocent", a retarded child, left with an older woman in a small English town after her parents are forced back to New York at the beginning of World War II. She does not speak but slowly says a very few words as she develops a closeness with her foster mother. After the war ...
