I just read the dust jacket copy on Goodreads, and Renault's fourth novel concerns a woman doctor of thirty-four, and her gifted young lover, some ten years her junior, whose will has been sapped, and his ambition crushed, by the remote antagonism of his mother.

HOO BOY.

Honestly, this makes me kind of want to read it? Not because I think it will be ENJOYABLE per se but because it will clearly be an Experience, possibly even an Experience on par with The Friendly Young Ladies.