Something in Disguise

Elizabeth Jane Howard

first published 1969 Sterling Audio, 1998 audiobook

May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her children leave home to escape the Colonel, and his behaviour is beginning to become more and more sinister. Oliver drifts from one affair to another, and Elizabeth follows him to London in search of love and security. Even Herbert's own daughter, the shy and lonely Alice, is driven into marriage to escape from her father...

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Something in Disguise audiobook · 1998 · Sterling Audio · 9780754002123
Something in Disguise paperback · 1993 · Pan Books · 288 pages · 9780330332026
Something in Disguise paperback · 1990 · Pan Books · 288 pages · 9780330315555
Something in disguise. edition · 1970 · Viking Press · 280 pages
Something in disguise. edition · 1969 · Cape · 280 pages

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