Bibliograph

The reading party, Fenella Gentleman

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The reading party, Fenella Gentleman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The reading party

Responsibility statement

Fenella Gentleman

Summary

It is the seventies and the colleges of Oxford are finally opening their doors to women. Sarah Addleshaw, young, spirited and keen to prove her worth, begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is in fact, her college s only female Fellow. Impulsive love affairs with people, places and the ideas in her head beset Sarah throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading Party, that has the most dramatic impact. Asked to accompany the first mixed group of students on the annual college trip to Cornwall, Sarah finds herself illicitly drawn to one of them, the suave American Tyler. Torn between professional integrity and personal feelings she faces her biggest challenge to date

Target audience

adult

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