The GrownUps Author:Victoria Glendinning Martha, Alice and Clara, friends since boarding school, are in love with Dr. Leo Ulm, "the famous social philosopher" and charismatic TV and lecture-circuit star. Martha is married to him, Alice is the wife of his blind son from his first marriage, and Clara is unable to commit herself to her lover Harry because she adulates Leo. (Char... more »lotte, Leo's first wife, still longs for him as well.)
All are aware that Leo is egocentric, childish and demanding, but they live for his praise and one of his endearingly crooked smiles.« less