"To Norah Smallwood" 65yo publisher
Rebecca West [wiki] mistook Harriet for a parody of her marriage and affairs (Monty = HG Wells? Emily = Gerd Larsen?)
57 unnumbered chapters
characters: 744,248
words: 135,594
needs editing-- lots of awkward phrasing that needs polishing
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1969 Jacqueline Susann title
👨Blaise Gavender, psychotherapist
Hood House, handsome
👵 Harriet Derwent Gavender, his wife
Adrian Derwent, her brother
Ajax, her black Alsatian
Ganimede, a black miniature poodle
Babu, a black spaniel
Panda, a black labrador mongrel with white markings
Buffy, an airedale
Lawrence, a Welsh collie
Seagull, a small black and white terrier
😷David Gavender, their 16yo son
👩Emily McHugh, Blaise's 31yo mistress of nine years in Putney
👦Luca, their 8yo son
Constance Pinn, Emily's roommate
Richardson, Emily's peach and grey cat
Little Bilham, her other cat
🔍Montague (Monty) Small, detective novelist
Locketts, his cottage
💃Sophie, his two-month-deceased pretty ex-actress wife
🔫Milo Fane, his character
🤡 Edgar Demarnay, admirer of Sophie
👤Magnus Bowles
Mrs Raines-Bloxham, elderly neighbor
👧Kiki St Loy, 17yo
Lucky Luciano
Blaise's patients:
Stanley Tumbelholme
Angelica Mendelssohn
Maurice Guimarron
Septimus Leech: O32
Penelope Biggers
Horace Ainsley
Miriam Lister
Jeannie Batwood
midsummer
P01: The boy was there
😷👦 #trespass
📚🔍
Excrucior, #dream 💤💭
P02: Harriet Gavender (nee Derwent)
Ubique quo fas et gloria ducunt = where fate and glory lead
P03: Blaise Gavender had enjoyed
👨🤒#dream 💤💭🐉
P04: "'Where is Nastasia
👨📖👵😷
P05: Montague Small was awakened
🔍
P06: "Blaise is away
P07: Emily McHugh now very much
P08: Blaise Gavender was driving
P09: Blaise remembered
P10: Blaise tended to leave
P11: Monty was looking
P12: "How was poor Magnus?
P13: "What did you do
P14: My darling boy
P15: "Why don't you try
P16: Emily McHugh was sitting
P17: His failure to achieve
P18: "Monty, Monty, are you
P19: Pinn, whom Blaise
P20: My darling Harriet
P21: Harriet held the letter
P22: Blaise came back
P23: Harriet had told David
P24: "She's sitting outside
P25: Luca, sitting in the sun
P26: "Isn't it funny
P27: "You should go now
P28: After Blaise had gone
P29: "Would you like him?"
P30: Blaise, having just left
P31: "Who was that fat man
P32: "Harriet had seen her
P33: It was Saturday morning
P34: "Your resemblance to the
P35: Monty had had several
P36: Meanwhile in the Hood
P37: Monty awoke into
P38: "This one's very sweet
P39: The weather had re-established
P40: "Didn't I tell you
P41: Milo Fane, tall, cold
P42: Monty cursed
P43: "Pinn seems very happy
P44: "I'm sorry," said Monty
🔍👵
P45: "I've come to call
P46: "I want to see Harriet
P47: Monty closed and bolted
P48: Harriet stood alone
P49: Unable to take himself
P50: "If you won't fetch
P51: "Where's Kiki?"
P52: "Well, and how was it?"
P53: Blaise turned the key
P54: Harriet was not used to
P55: "What did you think
P56: "Moules?"
P57: Edgar let the Bentley
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