Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department sto
re when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Sta
nding there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese i
s an awkward 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 divo
rce 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 haunting
ly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.
