{"product_id":"three-by-sylvia-ashton-warner","title":"Three by Sylvia Ashton-Warner","description":"\u003cp\u003en her deeply felt new novel, the author of Spinster and Teacher brings all her fresh, unorthodox perception to the universal - and universally disturbing - relationship of mother, son, and son's wife. This is the first of Miss Ashton-Warner's novels to be set outside her native New Zealand. The scene is London - in a large comfortably shabby flat cut in two by a hallway that serves only too well as a Generation Gap. At one end of it, the mother - wanting to be alone in her grief (and freedom) of her recent widowhood; wanting not to be alone; wanting to see her son's marriage succeed and be strong; wanting to be necessary to its success. At the other end, Julian and Angelique - Julian still dangerously ill from a near-fatal illness; wildly in love with a wife whose way of living maddens him; resisting his mother's psychic demands while recognizing (and requiring) her strength and generosity. And Angelique raised in idleness and luxury; strong in her determination to hold her husband; charming everyone around her; eluding demands she cannot fulfull... It is Miss Ashton-Warner's triumph that each of these three strong temperaments (none of them, as the mother puts it, \"good audience material\") is realized with understanding and compassion, even as - with all their decency and goodwill - they inevitably clash. Her novel comes powerfully to grips with the essential strength and danger of family the desire to protect loved ones from themselves, the compulsion to live their lives for them\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43687670808650,"sku":"6752bd","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6752bd.jpg?v=1781058437","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/three-by-sylvia-ashton-warner","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}