No Love Lost

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