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The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot

Angus Wilson

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#723 of 8,085 books · #426 in Fiction

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1958).

Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she is supposed to be. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot follows Meg as she tries to make sense of the realities of life, of living and contemplates the future and its possibilites. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also, the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the idea of a new love.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571286843
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Grief and widowhoodIdentity and self-discoveryMiddle age and reinvention

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