On Green Dolphin Street

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Superbly done...Another winner' Sunday TelegraphAmerica, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. But when Frank, an American newspaper reporter, enters their lives Mary embarks on a passionate affair, all the while knowing that in the end she must confront an impossible decision.

subjects: Fiction,  Married women,  British,  Diplomats' spouses,  Cold War,  Literature,  Politics and government,  Journalists,  Politicians,  Love stories,  Married people, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Washington (d.c.), fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, political,  Romance fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  English,  Roman,  Politika ve Devlet Yo netimi,  I ngilizler,  English fiction,  New York Times reviewed

Places: United States,  Washington (D.C.),  New York (N.Y.),  A.B.D.

Times: 1953-1961