Laura Thornby, independent, individual, and slightly exotic,\nmanages her life with exquisite control. Her affairs are brief but\ndelightful, her career fulfilling, and she copes with her two\nrather peculiar elderly relatives with wryness and humour. But when\nshe meets twenty-three-year-old Claude Bannister, struggling to be\na writer, she is swept by an irresistible desire to interfere,\nmanipulate, experiment with him - for his own good, of course. What\nshe does not foresee, however, are the possibilities that he, one\nday, may write well, and that she might fall in love.

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