She finds herself more and more inexplicably drawn towards this older, glamorous woman who is trapped within her own loveless marriage and seems utterly unsuited to the boring life of a suburban housewife. Although she appears young and inexperienced in life, her true passion lies in stage design, but it is in her dead-end day job that she meets an enigmatic customer, Carol Aird, whose appearance forever changes the course of Therese’s life. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol’s world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose…įirst published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties’ New York.”Īs suggested by the synopsis, Carol (or The Price of Salt as it was originally titled) tells the story of Therese Belivet, a young woman living with (but emotionally and physically distant from) her boyfriend Richard in New York and stuck in an unfulfilling job in a high-end department store. Therese is 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 divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. “Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter.
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