The Athenian Widow

by Robert Harling

Out of the blue, a young Englishwoman offers a columnist on a leading London newspaper a bombshell of a scoop: a detailed account of her New York life as the part-time mistress of a rich, radical Presidential candidate, idol of the young, recently assassinated in a turbulent, triumphant campaign. The impact of these detached and uninhibited confessions upon the editor and his team, and the fierce battle to publish and be damned - or to suppress - are the themes of Robert Harling's new novel of Fleet Street. The action of "The Athenian Widow" moves from London to Carolina, from New York to County Kerry, and is ruggedly played out between the middle-age editor, over-conscious of slowing down; his thrusting younger deputies; the touchy Washington correspondent; the beguiling young diarist and the Presidential candidate's imperiously rich widow now determinedly sequestered in the Deep South. --- "The Athenian Widow" is Robert Harling's sixth novel. To his novels he brings an unusually wide knowledge of the Fleet Street newspaper world, for he has been typographical advisor to 'The Sunday Times' for several years and is closely involved each week in the make-up of the news page. Mr Harling's journalistic experience is somewhat more esoteric than that of most other newspapermen, for he is also editor of 'House & Garden' magazine, and writes extensively on domestic architecture, furniture design (period and modern), and landscape gardening.

239 pages, Hardcover

First published May 2, 1974

About the author

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Robert Henry Harling was a British typographer, designer, journalist and novelist.