![]() ![]() It seems she has travelled back to the 1860s. ![]() After being confined to bed for several months, she is allowed to have a change of scene – lying down on the Chaise Longue she had picked up on a whim in a second hand shop.Īfter a nap, she wakes up to find herself in a room she doesn’t recognise, wearing clothes she doesn t own and being called a different name. Melanie is a 1950s housewife who is recovering both from giving birth and then a fit of TB. This is a short and surprising book, about a woman transported back in time. This is the story of a trip backward in time in which a nostalgia for the quaint turns into a hideous nightmare. The charming, childish wife of a successful lawyer, falls asleep one afternoon on her Victorian chaise longue, recently purchased in an antique shop, and awakes in the fetid atmosphere of an ugly, over-furnished room she has never seen before. The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski ![]()
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