CarolCarol, with a new foreword by Val McDermid, unfolds in 1950s New York. Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen year old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of