Elizabeth Taylor (the other one)

I just finished The Wedding Group, which I found in the bookcase in Venice, CA (thank you, Janet for having so many good books I have never read), and it was such an amazing portrait of a mother and her grown son, a sensitive but brilliantly controlling, independent but quietly needy, utterly indulgent mother. Hmm. A blueprint for Cathy? Or should I stick to the mother on Absolutely Fabulous? So hard to choose one’s role models sometimes.
I have no idea what this cover art has to do with the book.
It really is a beautiful, surprising, emotionally discerning book. I had read Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont ( a wonderful editor gave it to me years ago), and now I will have to read it again. And all her other books! Lucky me!