The Last Resort

London: Macmillan, 1956.

First Edition. Original sage green cloth with the slightly chipped dust-jacket. A near fine copy. Hansford Johnson's brilliant, mercilessly observant, psychological novel explores the vicissitudes of relationships in the mid-twentieth century. Christine, the happily married narrator, a novelist and the mother of a son, quietly relates the story of her friend Celia Baird's passionate love affair with a married man.