Peripheral Vision - Softcover

Ferguson, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904529291 ISBN 13: 9781904529293

Publisher: Pembury House Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Sylvia is a brilliant and successful eye surgeon, who reacts to the discovery that she is pregnant with amazement, despite taking no precautions. Iris is a timid young woman in love with a man from a different social stratum. And Ruby is a 1950s housewife who receives poison pen letters, which she believes she thoroughly deserves. Linking these women is a fascinating thread that weaves their lives together. Peripheral Vision is a powerful novel about love and the lack of it; about loss, mothering, sight and insight, from a prize-winning author. Most recently, Patricia Ferguson’s novel Aren’t We Sisters? Was listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize for Fiction. Patricia’s previous novels have won the Betty Trask, Somerset Maugham and David Higham prizes and she has twice been long-listed for the Orange Prize.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Ferguson trained and worked as a nurse and midwife, and this experience informs much of her fiction. She is the author of six novels, including It So Happens (2005) and Peripheral Vision (2007), both long-listed for the Orange Prize. Peripheral Vision is her first novel to be published in the United States. She lives in Bristol, England.

Review

Omaha World-Herald

“...erudite reading... [that gives] a sense of breathlessness for the reader anxious to know the next piece of a character's story...a fine undertaking for the reader.”


 Vogue

“... Fiction finds suspense in twisting tales of love and legacy. ... Patricia Ferguson's deftly plotted Peripheral Vision revolves around three women- a fifties-era housewife traumatized by her son's damaged eye, a shy working-class nurse involved with a wealthy medical student, and a contemporary eye surgeon blind to her own misperceptions- who struggle to bring their lives into focus.”

 
Library Journal

“Ferguson makes excellent use of flashback and alternating...illustrating the subtle yet telling influences people can have on one another in even the most innocent of interactions...Fans of literary fiction will appreciate the novel's wit and quietly apt observations on the human condition.”
ForeWord Magazine

“Crisp dialogue, trenchant observations, and crystalline details that coalesce into an indelible whole...Readers looking for a ‘sure thing’ would be wise to cast their sights on this emerging British novelist.”


The New York Times Book Review

A deepening of the story. . . . Pemper argues that the 'crucial accomplishment' was not the list itself but 'the multifarious acts of resistance that, like tiny stones being placed into a mosaic one by one, had made the whole process possible'...Pemper devotes most of his carefully written book to the numerous small initiatives that, in his telling, played a part in the rescue effort."

About this edition

• Publisher: Pembury House Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1904529291
• ISBN 13: 9781904529293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408