Not That Sort Of Girl

Feb 5, 2025 6:46 AM

Author:Mary Wesley

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder.

For even on the day when she has promised to forsake all others, Rose's heart is with the true love of her life, Mylo, the penniless but passionate Frenchman who, within five minutes of their meeting declared his love and asked her to marry him.

Whilst Rose remains true to her promise never to leave Ned, not even the war, social conventions, nor the prying of her overly inquisitive and cheerfully immoral neighbours, can stop her and Mylo from meeting and loving one another.

Reviews

Mistress of the dark side of upper-class mores

—— Kathryn Hughes , Observer

Spare, well-crafted prose and a mixture of racy gentility, humour and unconventionality

—— Scotsman

Like a noxious Doug Coupland, Palahiuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair

—— Ali Smith , Guardian

An immensely skillful writer

—— Daily Telegraph

Short, sharp and savage, this haunting and strikingly original American urban nightmare is the most impressive US fiction début I can remember in years

—— Glasgow Herald

Another great exhilaration from Eco. Eye-poppingly fascinating

—— Guardian

Perhaps the most intellectual novelist in Europe today. A highly idiosyncratic by engrossing novel

—— Herald

Profound and moving. A wonderful entertainer

—— Scotsman

Engaging

—— Sunday Times

The opening is delightful, the sort of stuff that has readers rubbing their hands in anticipation...it is good to see Eco recapture something of his former glories, bouncing ideas of his readers with characteristic zest

—— Sunday Telegraph

Stimulating

—— Big Issue

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