No Love Lost

NO LOVE LOST is Helen Van Slyke at her best: a splendid family story spanning three generations of extraordinary and very different wives, written with Van Slyke’s keen understanding of the conflicts that beset the modern woman.

America was struggling through the Depression when Pauline Thresher, the beautiful wife of a powerful banker, left her husband of twenty-five years because she could no longer bear his flagrant infidelity. Sara Thresher, her wise and compassionate mother-in-law, understood too well that wealth and position could not compensate for marriage to a cold, domineering man. She chose to go with Pauline, even though it meant a cruel and perhaps irrevocable estrangement from her own son. But Lindsay, Pauline’s lovely, willful daughter, stood on the threshold of a different world—which would demand all her resilience and determination if she was to survive as her own woman.

The critical people in their lives are James, Lindsay’s sensitive and idealistic brother, whose search for love ends in a bizarre transatlantic correspondence; Geoff, Lindsay’s “perfect” husband, who has to choose between two women and learn to live with his decision; Adele, her childhood friend, who married Lindsay’s father and covets her husband; Reginald, the handsome English chauffeur, who teaches Lindsay that love goes beyond class boundaries; and S.P., Lindsay’s daughter, whose liberated ideals cannot save her from her fate.

Penetrating, tender, uncompromising, NO LOVE LOST is the crowning achievement of a legendary writer whose romantic fiction has drawn millions of devoted followers.