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Carol

By Patricia Highsmith
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A BEAUTIFUL NEW QUARTERBOUND EDITION OF THE BELOVED, CLASSIC LOVE STORY Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, shy, inexperienced Therese is wholly unprepared... Read More
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'Some books change lives. This is one of them' Val McDermid
A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published

A beautiful new quarterbound edition of the cult classic, seminal lesbian text and major motion picture by Todd Haynes starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara

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A BEAUTIFUL NEW QUARTERBOUND EDITION OF THE BELOVED, CLASSIC LOVE STORY

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, shy, inexperienced Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love.

Therese is an awkward, dissatisfied nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose.

First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric story of forbidden yearning, heartbreak, and the potency of desire, set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526693921

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 October 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 407g

Pages: 320

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction Patricia Highsmith

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith is the author of classics such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Born in Texas, she spent much of her life in England, France and Switzerland. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.

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