Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939
Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven marriages a la mode, each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways. Every chapter revolves around a crisis that occurred in each of these marriages, as serious as life-threatening illness or as seemingly innocuous as a slightly tipsy dinn...