Elizabeth Alone
  • Published:
    May-1974 (Hardcover)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    336
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Alone together in a London hospital ward, four women take stock of their lives in this “deeply moving novel” by the award-winning author of The Old Boys (The New York Times).

At forty-one, the news that she requires a hysterectomy strikes Elizabeth Aidallbery as something of a nonevent. But from her bed at Cheltenham Women's Hospital, the divorced mother of three comes to realize that she is at a crossroads. She meets two other women admitted for the same operation: Young Sylvie Clapper, who is preoccupied with her dishonest boyfriend; and poor Miss Samson, with her disfiguring birthmark, who runs a Christian boarding house. In the ward with them is Lily Drucker, determined to have a child despite insurmountable difficulties.
 
With compassion and wry humor, these very different women share their lives, concerns, and regrets. Elizabeth faces a lonesome life that includes a childhood friend turned hapless suitor, and a teenage daughter who has run off to a commune. But there is a hard-won grace in the companionship these women find in Trevor's “finely observed, gently sensitive comedy” that is “delightful to read” (Daily Telegraph).
 
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EDITIONS
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    • Nov-1996
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140097562
    • ISBN13: 9780140097566
    •  
    • Feb-2015
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 024196945X
    • ISBN13: 9780241969458
    • First Edition
    • May-1974
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670291897
    • ISBN13: 9780670291892
    •  
    • May-2019
    • Open Road Media
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • May-2019
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1504058143
    • ISBN13: 9781504058148
    •  
    • May-2019
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0241969468
    • ISBN13: 9780241969465



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