Product Description
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Author: John Fowles
Format: Paperback
Charles Smithson meets Sarah Woodruff on the Cobb at Lyme Regis in 1867. Their encounter threatens to ruin his respectable Victorian future.
The French Lieutenant's Woman begins on the Cobb at Lyme Regis in Victorian England, where Charles Smithson encounters Sarah Woodruff for the first time.
As Charles risks clandestine meetings with Sarah, his engagement unravels, his reputation falters and the secure future he has planned begins to collapse around him.
A Victorian-set novel with a sharp modern intelligence, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a gripping story about defying convention for love.
'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' — Observer
About the Author
John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.
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