After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull
bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London.
Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older
Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business
and a pioneer in the British Women's Movement.
But, for all her independence of mind, Fido is too trusting
of her once-dear companion and finds herself drawn into aiding Helen's
obsessive affair with a young army officer. Then, when the Vice-Admiral seizes
the children and sues for divorce, the women's friendship unravels amid
accusations of adultery and counter-accusations of cruelty and attempted rape,
as well as a mysterious 'sealed letter' that could destroy more than one life
...Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction for 2012.
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