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Return to Night

A Virago Modern Classic

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Return to Night

By: Mary Renault, Sarah Dunant - introduction
Narrated by: Joan Walker
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Losing out on a promotion to her ex lover, Hilary Mansell, a talented doctor, moves to a rural hospital. She is bored and unchallenged, but the routine and long hours dull her disappointment. When Julian Fleming is admitted with a serious head injury, Hilary's skill and quick thinking save his life, and after his recovery he seeks her out. Julian is handsome, intelligent and a decade younger than Hilary, and although at first she resists his advances, she cannot help falling in love with him. Julian is a gifted actor but denies himself the career he longs for, and she senses that beneath his charm and humour something is holding him back. Before long, it becomes clear that his overbearing mother makes all the decisions in his life, and she doesn't approve of his ambitions - or of Hilary.©2026 Mary Renault (P)2026 Little, Brown Book Group Limited Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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