The Way Out of Berkeley Square

Another outstandingly wry and funny novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom, from her overbearing father and her overtly absent brother. But her quest for self-actualisation ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. The opening moves of their love affair are a spiky and self-conscious game of chess. Complete with rainy London streets, awful food ...