Elizabeth alone
By: William Trevor
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780241969458
Subjects: Fiction
Description: After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc she caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
Notes: Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1973.