Toward the Sea

by Stanley Middleton

When Henry Shelton, a widowed Latin teacher, receives a letter from the daughter of a woman with whom he had had an affair as a schoolboy, he has to both adjust to it and to his lovers emotional vulnerability. The three of them inhabit a world which is nowhere near as stable as it first seems. This is the moving story of three normal people and how they live, where love, death, sex and friendship are not dramatic but simple truths

Genres: Fiction

217 pages, Hardcover

First published June 12, 1995

About the author

Stanley Middleton wrote 45 novels, including 1974's Booker Prize-winner Holiday. A Cautious Approach was his last novel.

Reviews

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stanley Middleton was an excellent writer and I enjoyed reading this book. The only complaint I have about it is that it seemed to fizzle out towards the end and I wondered why I had spent all my time reading it in the first place.

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

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