The lucky one

Description

"Aren't you the lucky one!" people said of sunny-tempered Hugo, who was born to love and fortune and was made vulnerable by his innocence.

And "Aren't *you* the lucky one!" they said of Walter, who from modest beginnings and with the help of a doting, ambitious mother found his way to the security of money and position.

With wit, perception and the all but invisible irony she commands so well, Anne Parrish in this last novel tells the story of two men bound from childhood in a curious web of fate. Which of the two proves indeed to be the lucky one depends on the reader's own view of life.