My first exposure to the other Liz Taylor. One of the things that most impressed me was how it was possible to sense at all times the many ways this story could have lapsed into the maudlin or merely sentimental, & yet somehow it never does. To be honest I was less compelled by the central relationship than the titular character & her fellow residents at the Claremont; the descriptions of aging are clear-eyed & cut to the bone.

[Read #19 of "2021: My Year of (Mostly) Midcentury Women Writers"]