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A BEAUTIFUL NEW QUARTERBOUND EDITION OF THE BELOVED, CLASSIC LOVE STORY<\/b><\/p>\n

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, shy, inexperienced Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward, dissatisfied 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…<\/p>\n

First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt<\/i>, Carol<\/i> is a hauntingly atmospheric story of forbidden yearning, heartbreak and potency of desire, set against the backdrop of fifties’ New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Some books change lives. This is one of them’ Val McDermid
A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216],"product_tag":[26816,26830],"class_list":["post-111249","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-fiction-hardback","product_tag-crime-mystery-fiction","product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction","pa_book_author-highsmith-patricia","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-813-54-edition23","pa_edition-reprint","pa_imprint-bloomsbury","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8634","pa_publisher-bloomsbury","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\nCarol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A BEAUTIFUL NEW QUARTERBOUND EDITION OF THE BELOVED, CLASSIC LOVE STORYTherese 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. 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