Clothes In The Wardrobe [Afternoon Reading]

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0120070212Margaret, 19, is sleep-walking into marriage with a much older man whom she does not love.
0220070213Jasmine Hyde reads Alice Thomas Ellis' darkly comic novel about love, marriage - and the possessiveness of mothers.

2/5. Margaret, 19, is planning to marry a much older man whom she does not love. Everyone around her can see this is disastrous; but Margaret herself has her reasons - and a guilty secret.

0320070214As Margaret's wedding draws closer, the bridegroom becomes even more chilly and remote.
0420070215The guilty secret of Margaret's summer in Egypt begins to emerge.
0520070216The conventional suburban setting masks some dark secrets, which only now begin to emerge.