Collection: Young Adult Fiction (Academy Use Only)

When Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragi-comic disasters which reveal Waugh at his most mordant and incisive.

An old man and his childhood sweetheart are united for the first time resulting in the consummation of an amor interruptus that spans half a century. This uplifting story is set on the Colombian coast in the early 20th century.

Nobody knew who she was, or where she came from. But everyone loved her for being different. And she captured Leo's heart with just one smile...