Used Book – Forbidden to Love, Madeleine Chapsal

Flora, Pierre. She is a painter, he is a politician. Between them, brief moments, passionate embraces. And nothing more. Especially not "I love you". Pierre doesn't want that.

However, Flora eventually rebels against this prohibition on love. She is ready to understand everything, to accept his married life, the demands of his career. She only wants to share more. How can she tell him? Why this fear of feelings in men? To defy him, to defy herself, Flora throws herself into the arms of another...

In a concise, economical narrative, focused on the essential, the novelist of The Jade House and My Husband's Mistress depicts the ferocities and ecstasies of passion.