The Three Graces Author:Eliabeth Wix Three Modern young english women just out of boarding school and anxious to embark upon their adult lives. Elinor, enormously poised and atractive, and academically gifted, wants a serious elegant career. Beautiful and brainy, she seeks a kind of intelectual integrity: the perfect relationship, the ideal profession that will her the life of the ... more »mind, a reasoned life's progression. Clare on the other hand, is intent on enjoying a messy and dramatic existence. An aspiring artist, she is determined to paint with abandon, "to live poetry," to be anything but normal. Ironically, Antonia desires exactly the normalcy which she hads had the least of--an ordinary loving family-- even if she has to produceit herself. while she looks ike one of those ethereal beauties who stare out from the pages of fashion magazines, her life has hardly been glamorous. All she really wants is a special person to love : a baby>« less