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The Doves of Venus

by Olivia Manning · 1955

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Eighteen-year-old Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. Quintin, finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging into it.

Genre
coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of thisLondonLondonMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 313 pages

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