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City of Longing: A Love Story

by Victoria Thompson

247 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #08-0559; ISBN 1-4251-7738-7; US$26.25, C$26.25, EUR17.93, £13.55

A love story, steeped in longing, conflict and desire. He is mysterious and immensely wealthy - she is his apparent opposite, creative and idealistic.

About the Book

The betrayal of one’s friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is lifelong regret, Tom Stoppard wrote in The Invention of Love—and it is regret that compels a man to search for the woman who will help him in this moving love story, steeped in longing, conflict and desire. He is mysterious and immensely wealthy—she is his apparent opposite, creative and idealistic. They are separated by oceans and continents and much more but, despite their seeming differences, they fall in love.

They arrange to meet in New York. Afterwards they will fly to London and from there to Paris, his suite at The Ritz, and to his château in the South of France. But there are many surprises ahead, especially for the woman whose journey leads her to Morocco and finally to the Swiss Alps where she finds the answers she has been looking for.

This unconventional love story incorporates a contemporary backdrop of many elements—conspicuous wealth and globalization; health and the politics of medicine; the world of art, myth and literature; the power of places and the ecstasy and agony of falling in love.

About the Author

Victoria Thompson was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of French, Italian, Spanish and English parentage. She grew up speaking five languages and was educated at The Sacred Heart British Girl's Convent.

After King Farouk was exiled, Victoria and her parents left Egypt and came to live in Australia. Victoria trained as an actress and worked in film, television and theatre. She left acting to study psychology and became a psychotherapist. She eventually returned to her love of books and writing. Her memoir, Losing Alexandria was published in 1998 by Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia and was a literary success, spending several weeks on the Melbourne Age bestseller list. (A revised version is now available through Trafford Publishing.) She has also worked as an interpreter in the medical profession, yoga teacher, and travelled all over the world with her husband, a filmmaker and critic, making prize winning documentaries.