The Eye of Love

"A double-plotted...masterpiece with a great deal of wit and not an ounce of sentimentality" John Bayley, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR "An excellent storyteller" Elizabeth Bowen, TATLER They met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: he went as a paper parcel and she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Miss Dolores Diver into an exotic Spanish Rose. Fat Harry Gibson saw only beauty in her dark hair and sallow features. And Dolores, for her part, thought Harry the man of her dreams. For ten years, their slightly ridiculous bliss is complete until Mr Gibson decides he'll have to marry the hopelessly unprepossessing daughter of his colleague in order to save his ailing business. Miss Diver is cut off without a penny and is forced to take in a lodger, Mr Philips, who mistakenly takes Dolores for a much richer woman than she is...