Neurotically heartbroken woman mourning her dead lover becomes entangled with a Slavic couple and is easily seduced by the wife. She then enters on a long affair a trois with the couple. Dell, pbr, 1961. Excellent, autobiographical in form, as well written as a fine novel. From the sensitive feminine perception and the exquisite use of language, this was either written or ghostwritten by some English woman of letters.
Lesbian element is minor.
Lucy is a student at New England girl's college. Many sweaty but not pornographic love scenes. Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Jesse, an Olympic swimmer, lost the Gold Medal in Mexico City and lost her heart to Marty, an Australian opponent. Through three parallel lives, we see Jesse's possibilities and what Marty might still mean to Jesse.