The Withered ArmBookworms Stage 1

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A woman and a man... words of love wispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her... It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of Southern England, has something different about it. Perphaps, it's only a dream, or perphaps it is magic -  akind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms...

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Staying On

Staying On is a novel by Paul Scott, which was published in 1977 and won the Booker Prize.
The novel is notable for its clear prose and evenness of style, the perfect tone of its dialogue, and the sensitivity with which it elucidates the unspoken underside of a marital relationship which has withered on the vine. This tragedy is leavened by the ironies that are thrown up by the clash of British with Indian expectations.