"Collins' boldness in drawing sympathetic portraits of both the wife and 'the other woman' is astonishingly modern. The novel well deserves to be brought back into print." -- Catherine Peters, Oxford University
Graham Law is an associate professor of English Studies at Waseda University, Japan, and the author of Reading Contemporary English Fiction. He has also written extensively on nineteenth-century suspense novels and is the editor of two other Broadview Literary Texts editions: Hard Times and Great Expectations (with Adrian Pinnington).
"Collins' boldness in drawing sympathetic portraits of both the wife and 'the other woman' is astonishingly modern. The novel well deserves to be brought back into print." -- Catherine Peters, Oxford University