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Having read some of Arnold Bennett's earlier works, this stands with A Man From the North & Anna of the Five Towns as one of his better novels. Novel follows two failing marriages, both with a spouse committing adultery (of course the adulterous spouse in one is a woman, the other the man) and the painful process of legally trying to obtain a divorce. Bennett's strength is that there are no villains and each character seems a least a bit sympathetic. Ending has one character, Lawrence Ridware di
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