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What happens to love inside a marriage, where the deepest feelings may never find words?
In Love and Lucy, Maurice Hewlett turns from medieval romances to ordinary rooms and ordinary choices. Lucy and the subject of love stand at the heart of this English domestic novel. Marriage is its ground: not simply a settled condition, but a relationship shaped by the feelings of the people within it.
The interest lies inward, in desire, private thought, and the distance between what people feel and what they say. The novel also carries the manners and expectations of the early twentieth century. What a wife can do, what a husband can ask, and what a family accepts form the setting for this slow study of feeling.
What you’ll discover
- Marriage from the inside Consider a marriage through the feelings that give it life and make it change.
- The pull of desire Explore love as an inward experience, where private feelings matter as much as outward choices.
- What remains unsaid Look beyond spoken words toward the thoughts that others may never hear.
- Ordinary rooms, inward lives Follow Hewlett away from castles and quests into the intimate ground of domestic fiction.
- A marriage in its time Meet the expectations surrounding wives, husbands, and families in early twentieth-century English life.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy domestic comedy with a romantic heart, clever dinner talk, and the surprising things a husband and wife keep from each other.
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- A successful man behind an eyeglass
- A dinner party with a hidden purpose
- A boy sets out to catch a pirate
- The kiss in the dark
- Motor rides and a tale-teller's philosophy
- A second visit from the invisible lover
- Spring, flying and a long look in the mirror
- The question Lucy cannot stop asking
- Two people live inside every one of us
- Jealousy, discipline and a comic narrator
Who’s who
- Lucy MacartneyA pretty, thoughtful wife of thirty-one who adores her son and longs for a sign that her husband truly loves her.
- James Adolphus MacartneyA successful solicitor with an eyeglass and a cold manner, proud of seeming effortless and afraid of being shown up.
- LancelotTheir twelve-year-old son, funny, serious and observant, who worships a certain adventurer and keeps his mother's secrets.
- Jimmy UrquhartA rich, restless man who tells wild tales, loves risk and decides he wants Lucy.
- Francis LingenA pale, elegant poet who needs money and an audience and is deeply in love with Lucy.
- Mabel CorbetLucy's younger sister, a hunting wife with a ready jibe who sees more than she first admits.
- Vera NugentUrquhart's lively sister, a talker who watches events and gives plain warnings.
- Miss BacchusA sharp-tongued old friend of the family who has a joke for everyone and knows everybody's business.
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Liebe und Lucy
by Maurice Hewlett · 1916
In the dark of Onslow Square, Lucy is kissed and believes her eyeglass-wearing husband has found his heart.
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What would you do if a kiss in a dark room changed the way you saw your husband? Lucy Macartney is thirty-one, married to a famous London solicitor, and sure that her marriage has settled into polite quiet.
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A successful man behind an eyeglass
The novel opens in Onslow Square, London, where James Macartney has built a perfect life. He is forty-two, the best-dressed solicitor in town, and the lawyer of bishops and peers. He owes his success, he believes, to an eyeglass, a crooked smile and a cold manner that nothing disturbs.
Clients stare at the blank lens, grow nervous and tell him everything. At home it works just as well. Years before, James went without breakfast for three days rather than admit he wanted his egg poached, and his young wife was left sick with guilt.
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Hewlett, Maurice. Love and Lucy. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/love-and-lucy.
Hewlett, M. (2026). Love and Lucy. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/love-and-lucy (Original work published 1916)
Hewlett, Maurice. Love and Lucy. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/love-and-lucy.
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What is Love and Lucy about?
It follows a London solicitor, James Macartney, and his wife Lucy, whose quiet marriage is shaken when she is kissed in the dark and believes her husband has found his heart. A rich adventurer, Jimmy Urquhart, has already entered their lives before the mysterious kiss.
Who is Jimmy Urquhart in Love and Lucy?
Urquhart is a wealthy, restless man who tells wild stories of pirates, smuggling and many wives. He wins over Lancelot and Lucy with his energy, and he becomes the force that pushes the Macartneys to see each other afresh.
Why does James Macartney wear an eyeglass?
The eyeglass is his weapon and shield. It makes clients nervous, hides his feelings and gives him an air of ease. Lucy comes to see it as the symbol of everything that stands between them.
The author
Maurice Hewlett
1861–1923 · English historical novelist
Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923) was a British novelist, poet and essayist. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, and later lived in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, where he died. His novels include The Forest Lovers, published in 1898, and The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, published in 1900.
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