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 Books
Wendy Perriam's writing is profoundly shaped by her life's stark contrasts, from rigid convent discipline to the wildness of the sixties, marriage and divorce, infertility and motherhood. Her novels and short stories are celebrated for their power to disturb, divert, and shock, delving into the darker, often contradictory aspects of human experience. Perriam views writing as a space for 'shadow selves,' allowing her to embody disparate identities, from the staid matron to the 'slag,' the organized author to the 'madwoman in a straitjacket.' This exploration of complex and often unsettling facets of existence makes her work compelling and thought-provoking for readers.
Cuckoo
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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!
Michael, Michael
- 373 pages
- 14 hours of reading
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
Ein Wochenende auf einer Schönheitsfarm führt zwei Frauen zusammen, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein können: Beattie Cook, ehrgeizige Journalistin; Elizabeth Hargreaves, frisch geschieden und vierfache Mutter. Sie verlieben sich ineinander und geraten in ein verwirrendes Auf und Ab der Gefühle. Subtiler Roman über Liebe, Treue, Eifersucht.
