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Helen Van Slyke: 3 Complete Novels - A Necessary Woman; Sisters and Strangers; Always Is Not Forever
A Necessary Woman --
Winning a cruise to the South Pacific changes the life of thirty-eight-year-old Mary Farr Morgan who, accompanied by her niece, leaves behind the husband she has supported for fifteen years and, upon returning, must decide whether to stay married to a man she pities but cannot respect.
Sisters and strangers --
SISTERS Frances. Alice. Barbara. Three sisters who were raised together yet took such different paths. One into the glittering world of international society and sophisticated passion. One into a nightmare marriage that was destroying her body and soul. One into an independent career and an affair with a man whom she could not hope to marry.
AND STRANGERS Now they had come together again—to discover how far they had drifted apart, yet how closely intertwined were their intimate feelings and perilous fates.
Always is not forever--
Lovely young Susan Langdon thought she knew what she was doing when she married world-famous concert pianist Richard Antonini. She knew about the many women whom this handsome, incredibly gifted musical genius numbered among his conquests. She knew about his celebrated close-knit family... his ravenously possessive mother... his jet-paced world of dazzling glamor and glittering sophistication... his passionate dedication to his career. But she also knew - or thought she knew - Richard, her Richard, the Richard she adored and gave up her career for.
Winning a cruise to the South Pacific changes the life of thirty-eight-year-old Mary Farr Morgan who, accompanied by her niece, leaves behind the husband she has supported for fifteen years and, upon returning, must decide whether to stay married to a man she pities but cannot respect.
Sisters and strangers --
SISTERS Frances. Alice. Barbara. Three sisters who were raised together yet took such different paths. One into the glittering world of international society and sophisticated passion. One into a nightmare marriage that was destroying her body and soul. One into an independent career and an affair with a man whom she could not hope to marry.
AND STRANGERS Now they had come together again—to discover how far they had drifted apart, yet how closely intertwined were their intimate feelings and perilous fates.
Always is not forever--
Lovely young Susan Langdon thought she knew what she was doing when she married world-famous concert pianist Richard Antonini. She knew about the many women whom this handsome, incredibly gifted musical genius numbered among his conquests. She knew about his celebrated close-knit family... his ravenously possessive mother... his jet-paced world of dazzling glamor and glittering sophistication... his passionate dedication to his career. But she also knew - or thought she knew - Richard, her Richard, the Richard she adored and gave up her career for.
796 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 1988
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May 7, 2008
Fast and mostly mindless reads portraying various themes involving women and their relationships with men. I found the characters enjoyable, but Van Slyke's novels are completely escapist fiction.
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