Margaret Drabble - novel - 1969 - p. 185  

An experimental novel that met with mixed reviews, The Waterfall switches partway from a third-person account to a first-person point-of-view, exploring the life and love of the incisive Jane Gray. Jane’s consciousness interrupts the third-person account, which involves her being deserted while pregnant by her husband and on the brink of an affair with James, the husband of her cousin, Lucy, who is looking after her; it insists that her own personal details, however unsavory, are indispensable to the narrative.

Though readers might expect the storyline--a woman’s experience of a love affair--to be full of romance and sensuous experience, the book focus primarily on Jane’s internal thoughts about free will and morality.

Key elements: Europe, infidelity, marriage