Friends and Lovers by Helen MacInnes
Hardcover, 367pp, Fiction
Little Brown and Company, 1947
Condition: used, book club edition. It is in acceptable condition. There is a name written inside on the first page and some edgewear/rubbing around the book and on the spine. There is a bump at the top right of the front cover. The pages are clean and tight. The dust jacket has some small tears around the edges. The picture is a scan of the actual book you will receive.
Synopsis: it is a story of young lovers suddenly confronted with the violence of their emotion and irresistible demands. Penny Lorrimer’s father was an Edinburgh lawyer, a lowlander who had muffled his highland wife until she was more staid and conventional than he. When Mr. and Mrs. Lorrimer said Penny was too young and refused their consent to her marriage with an unknown, penniless Londoner, it ook more than her highland grandfather to change their minds.