The Long View

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel.Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship – as extraordinary as it is timeless.One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider t