Carol

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful; alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there; Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated; bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world; she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose... First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt; Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.