In "Reading Turgenev" an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage wi
th an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares
her passion for Russian novels.
"My House in Umbria" tells of Emily Delahunty,
a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train
to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients. Two novels, two wome
n who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries bet
ween what is real and what is not become blurred...
