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The Lion's Share

Arnold Bennett

Book Overview: 

This is about an heiress who goes to Paris and gets into an upper class social circle, returns to England to help with the suffrage movement and then goes back to Paris.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She stopped. Her eyes, ferreting in Audrey’s black, completed the communication.

Unnerved for the tenth of a second, Audrey recovered and answered:

“Oh, no! I shall like it very much.”

“You’ve been up against life!” murmured Tommy in a melting voice, gazing at her. “But how wonderful all experience is, isn’t it. I once had a husband. We separated—at least, he separated. But I know the feel of being a wife.”

Audrey blushed deeply. She wanted to push away all that sympathy, and she was exceedingly alarmed by the revelation that Tommy was an initiate. The widow was the merest schoolgirl once more. But her blush had saved her from a chat in which she could not conceivably have held her own.

“Excuse me being so clumsy,” said Tommy contritely. “Another time.” And she waved her cigarette to the waiter in demand for the bill.

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Community Reviews

At the start this book may read like a potboiler. But do keep reading. You'll see that in the end the seemingly shattered threads will glue together. The style is light-hearted and easy to read.

A turgid Bennett potboiler that’s well worth avoiding

It is amazing that a man who wrote such a masterpiece as "The Old Wives' Tale", and the scarcely lesser "Riceyman Steps" not to mention his "Five Towns" novels, could have written anything as turgid as this effort. The answer may lie in his enormo