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Dorothy Richardson is existing right above the poverty lines, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office and living in a seedy boarding house in Bloomsbury, when she is invited to invest the weekend with a youth friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of popularity. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him.Bertie looks unremarkable initially. But Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, openly signaling agreement. He says herhe and Jane produce an agreement that allows them the liberty to take addicts, although Dorothy can tell her friend would not be happy with that arrangement.Not looking tobetray Jane, yet unable to down side, Dorothy free-falls into an affair with Bertie.A new boarder arrives at the house - beautiful Veronica Leslie-Jones - and Dorothy discovers herself captured between Veronica and Bertie.Amidst the non-public dramasand wreckage of a militant suffragette march,Dorothy discovers her voice as a writer.Louisa Treger's The Lodger is a attractively intimate novel that reaches once an introductionto one of the most important writers of the 20th hundred years and a engaging story ofonewoman tormented by unconventional desires.
