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A. L. Barker's engrossing novel looks at the life of a middle-aged storyteller, her fictional world and the individuals who inhabit it. Characters such as Mrs McSweeny and her husband Murdo who receive hallucinatory information about the Second Coming; or Elinor Dunphy, an elegant older woman visited by a beautiful and free-spirited young man who makes veiled sexual overtures to her; or Lalla, a divorcee, who falls in love with her son's form-master, only to learn that his apparent advances to her are just a cover for his passion for her son. These humorous yet tragic vignettes are all concerned with unfulfilled and usually perverted sexual relations - but how do they relate to the narrator's own successful marriage?
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The Woman Who Talked to Herself, Audrey Lilian Barker
- Language
- Released
- 1989
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- Book condition
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- Price
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- Title
- The Woman Who Talked to Herself
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Audrey Lilian Barker
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 186
- ISBN10
- 0091740606
- ISBN13
- 9780091740603
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Love, Women, Psychological novels
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- A. L. Barker's engrossing novel looks at the life of a middle-aged storyteller, her fictional world and the individuals who inhabit it. Characters such as Mrs McSweeny and her husband Murdo who receive hallucinatory information about the Second Coming; or Elinor Dunphy, an elegant older woman visited by a beautiful and free-spirited young man who makes veiled sexual overtures to her; or Lalla, a divorcee, who falls in love with her son's form-master, only to learn that his apparent advances to her are just a cover for his passion for her son. These humorous yet tragic vignettes are all concerned with unfulfilled and usually perverted sexual relations - but how do they relate to the narrator's own successful marriage?