A flawless novel of manners, women and love. . . .Not only consistently entertaining but a valid and incisive picture of how married women of that in-between generation-in their forties now, too young to have known the high-kicking '20s, too old to be part of the '60s revolt-are coming to terms with the new feminism. In this fine second novel, Cynthia Propper Seton seems on her way to becoming an American Doris Lessing-that mistress of self-exploring fiction-only softer voiced, less heavy-handed. . .the two of them half-sisters, you might say. -Mary Ellin Barrett, Cosmopolitan