November Bookclub - Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Hi all,
For November we will be reading Carol by Patricia Highsmith (excerpt below). Please only RSVP if you are able to make it as we organise with the venue for space. Many thanks.
K

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Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York

This edition originally published as The price of salt by Claire Morgan, 1952; as Carol by Patricia Highsmith. London: Bloomsbury, 1990