By Susan Napier
Veronica Bell and Lucien Ryder have a one-night stand in Paris but then meet again when they are both guests of a family in southern France. The couple try to ignore what had happened between them, but as a distant scandal involving Lucien gets closer, Veronica is enlisted to spend more time with him.
Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.