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The Bay of Angels

`It was at Millie`s party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives …` Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoe and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances …`One of her very best – possibly her finest …reverberates long after it`s put down …Brookner in all her wisdom, eloquence and power` Spectator