Description

(from dust jacket, inside flap): Linda Wheaton is one of the best drawn of Miss Baldwin’s many fine characters. Linda was completely secure and happy in her life. She knew just what she wanted from it and seemed to get it all. Suddenly, her happy world fell to pieces around her, and Linda went to New York, determined to get a job, be self-sufficient and not to get really involved with people again. But there were many complications in the group of Linda’s friends and she found herself involved without knowing why. Not until it was pointed out to her that “you can’t escape what you are, what you have been for over twenty years, your basic character,” did Linda face life and incidentally find happiness again.

Notes

Not one of Baldwin's best. If you like its tropes, you may enjoy. Flag: attempted suicide.

Tags

1940s, American, United States, Northeast, escape old life, f/m, femme fatale/maneater, fiction, jilted/left at the altar, lovers, friends to, never love again, romance, secretary, third-person, young

Flags

suicide