Other People’s Worlds (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William Trevor Cox
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Late twentieth century
- Setting: London, and Stone St. Martin, Gloucestershire
- Principal Characters: Julia Ferndale, Francis Tyte, Mrs. Anstey, Katherine, Henrletta, Doris Smith, Joy, Father Lavin
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Acting or actors, Sex or sexuality, Crime or criminals, Social issues, Prostitution or prostitutes, Mental illness, England or English people, Good and evil, Mysteries, London, Ethics, Single people, Widows or widowers
- Locales: London, England, Gloucestershire, England
The Novel
Julia Ferndale has been a widow for nine years, her two daughters are grown and on their own, and she lives a fairly comfortable life with her mother in the nineteenth century Swan House, near Stone St. Martin, typing legal documents for a nearby firm of solicitors. Then she meets Francis Tyte, an actor fourteen years her junior; they fall in love and plan to wed and honeymoon in Italy.
That is perhaps the last happy news of Other People’s Worlds, a novel that sucks readers deeper and deeper into its psychological mire. Francis Tyte is a psychopath,...
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