Falling Slowly

From the author of HOTEL DU LAC and ALTERED STATES, a novel which explores the themes of loneliness, friendship, fate and opportunity, in which a woman, forced into early retirement, longs to be rescued by the ideal man.

Beatrice and Miriam are sisters. Their lives fall short of what they would have wished for themselves: love, acknowledgment in the eyes of the world, even a measure of respect. Each discovers to her cost that love can be a self-seeking business and that lovers have their own exclusive desires....