[1] Set in New York City immediately after World War II, an unhappily married woman's life comes to a crisis in a single week.

As with her two previous novels it was a commercial success, making the Publishers Weekly annual list of bestsellers.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, it starred Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin and Ava Gardner.

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