Katherine Bucknell: 2 books

  At fifty, Alice Gregory discovers that she can’t really see anymore.  So she buys a pair of drugstore reading glasses, strength +1, and her suburban life looks magically more inviting.  Outside the circle of marriage and family, shrinking as her three sons grow up and leave home, fresh...

What price perfection? David is an American investment banker living in London; Elizabeth, his wife, is a woman of peerless beauty and refinement. They have two children; their marriage seems perfect. Why does she want him to retire and move home to America? One summer evening, David, alone...