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Josephine Hart

    March 1, 1942 – June 2, 2011

    Josephine Hart was an Irish author celebrated for her piercing exploration of desire and the destructive power of obsession. Her narratives delve into the darker corners of the human psyche, examining the intricacies of relationships and the inevitable clashes between passion and morality. Through her refined prose and intense storytelling, Hart compels readers to confront the unspoken truths of the human experience.

    Josephine Hart
    Verhängnis. Roman
    Sin
    The Truth about Love
    Damage
    Oblivion
    Catching Life By The Throat
    • 2010

      The Truth about Love

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.0(16)Add rating

      It's dangerous . . . and that's the truth about love . . . A young man shields his terrible wounds from his mother; a husband believes he can love his grief-stricken wife back to life; a young girl puts her own life on hold until her family can find their way back from blinding pain; a man surrenders to the helplessness of obsessive love. Set in Ireland, this brilliant, intense story is about a family named O'Hara who chose to remain in the place of their loss, and the stranger from Germany who has run from his. It's about love - for another, for a country, for family - and survival, and it's remarkable.

      The Truth about Love
    • 2006

      Catching Life By The Throat

      • 238 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.6(24)Add rating

      Following the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library where actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson have read poetry from Auden to Eliot, from Larkin to Plath - comes the book and a complimentary CD.

      Catching Life By The Throat
    • 1995

      Oblivion

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.4(14)Add rating

      Andrew suffers greatly from the loss of his wife Laura and cannot seem to move ahead as he constantly sees her in his dreams, but after meeting one very powerful woman, he begins to learn how to remember Laura while still being able to move on. Reprint.

      Oblivion
    • 1993

      Ruth is beautiful, intelligent and privileged, but she can never be satisfied - there is a moral vacuum where her heart should be. She envies her cousin Elisabeth and this obsession leads her inexorably to tragedy. By the author of "Damage".

      Sin
    • 1991

      Damage is the gripping story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée. Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a masterpiece—a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences.

      Damage