Frances, too, finds unexpected joy as she learns to make sense of life without Peter. Zahin is charming-deferential and superhumanly industrious, he fills the air with the "satisfying scent of lavender Pledge"-but there's also something unsettling about his presence, which drives Bridget to her Shropshire cottage, where she meets Stanley Godwit, a Shakespeare-loving chimney sweep. But before Bridget can come to terms with Peter's absence, a "breathtaking" young Iranian man named Zahin arrives to see Peter and winds up moving in as houseguest/housekeeper. When 62-year-old Londoner Peter Hansome dies in a car crash, his widow, Bridget, and his mistress, Frances, develop an awkward intimacy cemented by their shared loss. The classic threesome-husband, wife, mistress-proves mathematically unstable in Vickers's profound comic novel (following her debut, Miss Garnet's Angel).
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