The affairs of others
By: Amy Grace Loyd
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781780226811
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighbourhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she has chosen her tenants for their ability to respect one another's privacy. Everything changes with the arrival of a new tenant, Hope, a dazzling woman of a certain age on the run from her husband's recent betrayal. When Hope begins a torrid and noisy affair, and another tenant mysteriously disappears, the carefully constructed walls of Celia's world are soon tested and the sanctity of her building is shattered, through violence and sex, in turns tender and dark.