Now in paperback, a novel which explores the lives of three generations of women as one of them embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Originally published in hardback in 1985. From the author of AFTER PURPLE.
Wendy Perriam Boeken
Wendy Perriams schrijfwerk is diepgaand gevormd door de scherpe contrasten in haar leven, van strikte kloosterdicipline tot de wildheid van de jaren zestig, huwelijk en scheiding, onvruchtbaarheid en moederschap. Haar romans en korte verhalen worden geprezen om hun vermogen om te ontstellen, te vermaken en te choqueren, waarbij ze de donkerdere, vaak tegenstrijdige aspecten van de menselijke ervaring onderzoeken. Perriam beschouwt schrijven als een ruimte voor 'schaduw-zelfen', waardoor ze uiteenlopende identiteiten kan belichamen, van de nette matrone tot de 'sloerie', van de georganiseerde auteur tot de 'gekke vrouw schreeuwend in een dwangbuis'. Deze verkenning van complexe en vaak verontrustende facetten van het bestaan maakt haar werk boeiend en tot nadenken stemmend voor lezers.
Cuckoo
- 320bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
Frances is on a fertility drug and sizing up the milkman. Charles is struggling between shocked disapproval and guilty desire for his own illegitimate daughter - a fifteen year old secret who arrives and takes over the nest. Their sterile and rule-ridden marriage (where even sex requires timetable and rule-book) begins to fall apart. In desperation, Frances flees to her feckless lover, Ned, and in trying to use him as a stud, finds she is used and abused herself. By then, the cuckoos - and the cuckolds - are really coming home to roost!
Three generations of women, all with very different ideas as to what constitutes the good life. An Enormous Yes poses fundamental questions about what constitutes living well, and the choices we are forced to make between wants and needs, ideals and rights; exploring the conflicting claims of entitlement versus duty and responsibility.
Lying
- 304bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
Alison Ward, an idealistic young editor in a publishing house, falls obsessionally in love with an older man, James Egerton, seemingly out of reach on both social and religious grounds. Why should a Cambridge-educated accountant from a well-to-do, ultra-Catholic family be attracted to someone of modest means and background who has rarely set foot inside a church (and whose father moreover dismisses all religion as claptrap)? Against the odds, she wins his love but, five years into their marriage, finds herself leading a double life, upholding "truths" in public which privately she abhors. The strain of this deception, coupled with deep sadness at their failure to conceive a longed-for child, eventually leads her into an affair. As lie piles on lie, she is horrified at her own faithlessness. Why, when she loves her devout and devoted husband, is she sloping off with a scruffy, layabout barman she doesn't even like? She begins to see falsehood everywhere—in advertising and politics, even science and medicine—and above all in the constricting religion of her husband and his family. Yet James's faith is an essential part of him, his virtue and integrity the very qualities that first attracted her; thus the discovery that even he is entangled in deception comes as a profound shock
Michael, Michael
- 373bladzijden
- 14 uur lezen
Charts the rites of passage of a young girl obsessed with three Michaels, and her journey through gloriously uninhibited physical passion to bizarre consummation and sacrament.
Heißhunger Frauen. - bk1910; Bastei Verlag Gustav Lübbe; Wandy Perriam; pocket_book; 1997
Traumkind gesucht - bk997; Bastei Lübbe; Wendy Perriam; pocket_book; 1994
