Stephen is an infantry officer on the Western Front. She becomes pregnant and, for reasons she does not disclose till later, she leaves him. Stephen and Isabelle flee together to Provence. They finally come together in a series of frankly described sexual encounters, whose physical detail foreshadows the bodily tests that await both of them in the coming war. At first, she resists but this only intensifies his feeling, which she soon comes to share. In the stultifying atmosphere of their town house, Stephen develops a concealed passion for Isabelle. René Azaire runs a large factory where Stephen works his second wife Isabelle is a woman of unfulfilled hopes, ill-treated by her husband. A young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, is on attachment from London, working in the textile industry and lodging with the Azaire family. The story begins in Amiens, northern France in 1910.
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