Description

Widely acclaimed since publication, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is John Fowles’ best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance.

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

‘A remarkable performance… As gripping as The Collector and The Magus’ Observer

Publisher Review

A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling * Financial Times * Compulsively readable * Irish Times * A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again * New Statesman * Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power * Sunday Times * Marvellous 1969 novel... You can read this book again and again, always finding something new and always falling in love with the hapless Charles. -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *