COMPANY IN THE EVENING - Tecno-Libro

Of all the unhappiness my divorce has brought upon me, loneliness has never been in the least a part. Lack of company in the evening is to me an absolute luxury. Thus does Vicky, a young divorcé.e in London with a small daughter to support, reassure herself. But as the plucky courage of the early days of World War II gives way to the fatigue and deprivations of its middle, company in the evening is just what she gets. To the chagrin of her housekeeper, Vicky agrees to take in a pregnant, widowed sister-in-law (&ldquo.Talking to her is like walking through a bog&mdash.squash, squash, squash&mdash.never, just never do you really crunch on to anything solid&rdquo.). As she is adapting to this change and the tensions it creates, and dealing with an impossible client at work at a literary agency, she happens to meet ex-husband Raymond one night &hellip. Told in a first-person confessional style ahead of its time, and featuring Ursula Orange&rsquo.s trademark humour, Co