num_pages: 384
description: She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language.  Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit.  Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles.  And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Cosmo--with Hubert--with Feix.  It took forty years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated and finally resolved.
language: English
title: A Sensible Life
titlecomplete: A Sensible Life
genres: Fiction, Historical, Relationships, Coming Of Age, British Literature, Womens, Romance, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1262
publisher: Vintage Books