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The Doves of Venus

(1960)
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Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once-beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging in.

Genre: Historical

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"The most considerable of our women novelists." - Anthony Burgess


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