She has no idea how she got there and how she can get back to her own time and place. 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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