New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties.

‘I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight.’

American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beautiful film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives she is drawn to the couple - Dick contemplates an affair, while Nicole believes she’s found a new best friend. But a dark secret lies at the centre of the Divers’ marriage. A secret which could destroy Dick and Nicole and those close to them …