Affliction - Hardcover

Weldon, Fay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002239183 ISBN 13: 9780002239189

Publisher: Harpercollins Uk, 1993

Synopsis

They seem the perfect couple, and after ten years together, are expecting their first child. But on the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye as he leaves for the office, and psychiatrists, fortune-tellers and hypnotherapists become involved.

About this title

From the Publisher:

'Meet the shrink from hell! - alternately laughing and gasping, the reader follows Annette out the pit and into the daylight...' - Miami Herald

'This brief, ferocious novel moves at a pace you would hardly believe...' - Observer

'Weldon scycthes her way like a flymo...' - Times Educational Supplement

'Affliction works like a slow-burning fuse..' - Independent on Sunday

'Weldon writes as if she were Virginia Woolf and Roseanne Arnold joined at the hip. she is literary, well-read, totally in control, sharp as a needle and off the wall...' - Mirabella

'It has crackling dialogue, tremendous pace and a monstrous husband called Spicer...' - Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

FAY WELDON is an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of sixteen, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of the original "Upstairs Downstairs, " she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include "Praxis", shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; "The Heart of the Country, " winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; "Worst Fears, " shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and "Wicked Women, " which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Uk
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0002239183
• ISBN 13: 9780002239189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1