Title: The Naive and Sentimental Lover
First published: 1971
Description: ***John le Carre's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class and bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans.***

Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus, a charismatic writer whose first and only novel, blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. 

The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo, smitten also with his new friend's luscious wife, into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all.

***''Sad, funny, captivating, and stunningly fertile, it is the most satisfying novel I have read this year.'' Sunday Express***
Subjects: John le Carré, John Le Carre, Le Carre, Fiction, British, Great Britain, English, Literature, Book, Story, Novel, Hardcover, Paperback, e-read, Romantic, Romance, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Spy, Cold War, Crime, Large type books, Fiction, romance, contemporary
Places: England, Somerset, Oxford, Havedown, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, County Cork, Hillside, Beohmin, London, Denver
People: Jesus, God, Christ. Jane Austen, King Edward I, Welsh, English, Butch Cassidy
Time periods: 1970s