The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor is an actress touring with arepertory company. Now of age, she has forgotten the benevolenttyranny with which her Catholic parents treated her relationshipwith actor Stephen Tye. Yet when Stephen betrays her, Clara marriesArchie, the fiancé she discarded four years earlier. A friendshipbut not a love match, this marriage proves a desperate attempt byClara to rekindle the safety of childhood. Neither party is achild, however, and their dream sugar house soon begins to dissolveas their fragile marriage proves hopeless.
Antonia White was born in 1899 and educated at in London atSt. Paul"s and RADA. She worked as a journalist and in the ForeignOffice, had four novels published and translated over thirty novelsfrom French. She died in Sussex in 1980.
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