Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a department store job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love. Then, one day, an alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love.Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her ownly daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose . . .First published in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties New York, and now a major film.