I can't find it on my shelves and it's driving me crazy trying to remember what it's called!
It's a novel set across the 20th century. the main character is called something like adeline. She marries an irish toff who kills himself then goes to art college, taking her dog (clancy?) into class with her, becomes a society painter, has two gay best friends, has an affair with a Vita Sackville-Westian manic depressive novelist, eventually marries a much younger man called Charlie, a wayward schoolteacher who runs up massive debts, breaks her heart and then is killed then retreats to a tropical island called Larmes des Anges.
it's called something like an inconvenient woman and the edition that i had had a woman in a hat that obscured most of her face on the cover.
please help, it's driving me nuts 
how the hell can I remember the entire plot but not the title or the author!
