The drowning people
By: Richard Mason.
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Married people -- England -- Fiction; Betrayal -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Murder -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "With a startling confession of murder, the narrator of The Drowning People draws the reader into a mesmerizing tale of love, violent betrayal, and bitter revenge."--BOOK JACKET. "From the moment he first spots young, beautiful Ella Marcourt on a beach in Hyde Park, twenty-two-year-old James Farrell is caught in the enveloping vise of first love."--BOOK JACKET.

"At their second encounter, he learns of her engagement to another; but, undeterred, he daydreams of rescuing her from the expectations of family and upper-class British society. When the two of them embark on a passionate affair, the intoxicating intimacy of their stolen moments together convinces them that nothing and no one else matters, that the intensity of their love can justify all their actions and guarantee their happiness."--BOOK JACKET.

"But they are swept along by a force they cannot control. In the ultimate test of loyalty, Ella forces James to betray his best friend; and a chain of events is set off which leads inexorably to a violent and tragic end."--BOOK JACKET.