A Pure Clear Light
Madeleine St John
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project … what could go wrong?
A Pure Clear Light examines a marriage at the moment it goes haplessly off-track: Simon succumbs to the temptation of his cool, blonde accountant and Flora heeds the cry of her reawakened faith. Ultimately, though, neither Simon nor Flora can escape the revelation that lies beyond excuses and remorse and candour, at the heart of the phenomenon called love.
In St John’s hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent. This is the work of an extraordinary writer.
Madeleine St John
Madeleine St John was born in Sydney. She graduated from SydneyUniversity in 1963 and lived in London for most of the succeeding years,until her death in 2006. The Women in Black is her first novel. She alsowrote A Pure Clear Light, 1996, The Essence of the Thing… »
