The Living Roomhe Living Room is Graham Greene's dramatic, often harrowing, exploration of forbidden love, Catholic guilt, and mortality. Set in a claustrophobic London home, it follows young Rose Pembertons affair with a married, older man, Michael, causing a collision with her strict aunts and a disabled priest

As civil war throws the empire into chaos

cross-like on the floor

Mary's world is one that readers will not soon forget

on-again-off-again friend and confidante

cunning and completely captivating' Louise Swanson

wide as though with some sustained surprise

When they do

having lost her father during the Great War

a pale circle of skin giving away the fact that

while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places

Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN

an unexpected future