The Stone Baby
Laura Chester
The Stone Baby
Laura Chester
Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester’s frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby
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Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia is swept away on the wings of money and charm to a world of compulsive sensuality–a world that comes to a sudden, sobering end when she finds that she is pregnant.
Laura Chester precisely charts the evolution of a doomed relationship, from first erotic rush to shattering disillusionment. Along the way, she explores the ways that women support one another in difficult times.
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