I have read this before, but have no memory of it, I think, except for a scene where the daughter is lost on Hampstead Heath.
There is a lot of rather unhappy sex in it; the central figure, a criminal barrister, is having a fairly lurid affair with her instructing solicitor (why, as he is horrible?) and none at all with her husband, who is also pretty horrible. If there is a plotline it is Alison, along with the solicitor, defending a woman accused of murdering her (unpleasant ) husband. But it transpires that their son has killed him, and she is accepting the blame to protect him.
Meanwhile, the solicitor has been accused of rape and commits suicide and her husband, having kicked her out for adultery, kills himself (or does she help?) in a bizaare auto-erotic moment of asphyxiation. So lots of nice people.
One of those books with a readable plot, but you wonder, what is the point of it?
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