The Constant Mistress

by Angela Lambert

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Laura King, a single woman, childless, mid-40s, has just been told she has a year to live. She decides to hold a party, inviting the dozen men who have played a significant role in her past. Most are ex-lovers, some just good friends, but to all of them she makes the most unorthodox suggestion.

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Common Knowledge

Original publication date
1994
People/Characters
Laura King; Constance Liddell; Paul Liddell
First words
Laura King was forty-four when she was told that she had only about a year to live: two at the most.
Quotations
Newly bereaved, her world scattered like a burgled house by the suddenness of her loss and sorrow, [she] was literally out of her mind.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Death has been beside you all your life. Just as I am now."

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6062 .A467 .C66Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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English, Swedish
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