![]() A year later and tired of a boring life in New York, Lucy follows her friend to Tangier and is received as a houseguest. ![]() Alice returned to England, married John, a man of somewhat dubious character, and moved to Tangier (which of course is where Westerners sojourned to indulge tastes that might well have got them into trouble at home). An incident their senior year-referred to as “the accident”-led to their estrangement. Here it’s Bennington in the fifties when it was a women’s college and the BFs and roommates are Alice, a wealthy English orphan, and Lucy, a local scholarship girl (or “shipper” in collegiate slang). ![]() A favorite subject of fiction is the unequal friendship, especially with best friends at school or college. ![]()
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