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Set between Peter Mayle's "A Good Year" and "Sideways" by Rex Pickett, "Quartet" is a two-part cross-cultural novel (American/English/French) that explores the often-unrecognized plight of a fit, healthy wife of a man suddenly disabled in midlife. In her efforts to care for Don and rebuild his life, American Anne Marie gives up career, country and family to move to the England of his youth, and in so doing loses sight of her own desires and aspirations and, ultimately, her identity. From the anticipation of the new Millennium's New York financial world to the beautiful countryside of England's East Midlands, Part I of "Quartet" tests the love and explores the difficulties of Don and Anne Marie's 14-year marriage as they navigate their new parameters. Part II introduces the second couple of the quartet, with the love affaire of a thirties-something English-rose-divorcee and a mid-life-crisis Wall Street escapee, amid the romantic charm of the châteaux country of the Loire Valley of Central France. The action intersects and overlaps Part I, as the ease of the new love of Julia and George contrasts with, and creates time for, resolution of the earlier issues. Written to explore all four protagonists against a colorful backdrop of secondary characters, and interspersed with snippets of history, local culture, folklore, recipes and viticulture, the story is essentially that of Anne Marie, as she first abandons then seeks reconstruction of her life also. The use of American and English spelling and word usage is dictated by the origin of the character speaking.
About the Author: Heather Refetoff was born in Hampshire, England, the last of a large family of twelve children. She has lived in Montreal, Paris, Brussels, Nagoya, Pisa, and Chicago. Prior to becoming a novelist she worked for the British diplomatic service as a vice consul for commercial publicity. Married to a University of Chicago professor of medicine, today she accompanies him on his extensive travels around the world.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480043909
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 418
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 607 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1480043907
  • Publisher Date: 05 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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