by Mary Wesley · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552993555
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«Second Fiddle» is the contemporary fiction novel by Mary Wesley, published by Black Swan in paperback (237 pages, in English).
Laura Thornby, an independent woman in her forties living in London, becomes the muse of Claud Bannister, a twenty-three-year-old aspiring novelist. Their relationship makes Laura question her life; between acerbic humour and irony, the novel portrays the British upper-middle class and addresses love, loss, loneliness and the search for happiness.
Work originally published in 1988; this Black Swan paperback edition is from 1998 and consists of 237 pages.
For readers of contemporary and romantic fiction with female protagonists and an ironic tone, within British literature.
Mary Aline Siepmann CBE, known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life.
