Book description
The Accidental Woman is a wickedly funny novel from bestseller
Jonathan Coe
For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents.
Untouched by friendship, unimpressed by devoted Ronny and his endless
marriage proposals, she lives in a world of her own, but not of her
own making. Even as she stumbled on through university, work, marriage
and motherhood, Maria finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about.
Will our heroine ever be able to control the direction of her life,
or will it end, as it began, by accident? What does chance next have
in store for her?
From the author of the award-winning The Rotters' Club and
What a Carve Up!, The Accidental Woman will be enjoyed by
readers of Nick Hornby and William Boyd and centres on a quirky and
highly individual woman who is still struggling to find her place in
life.
'The Accidental Woman has a cocky individual voice of its own. . .
here's precocious, rebellious talent' Mail on Sunday
'Slyly parodies the clich s of most first novels' Guardian
'A convincing stuffy of the random impetuses by which human
lives tend to be governed. It is also very funny' Spectator
Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting social
commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set
pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his
generation. His other titles, What a Carve Up! (winner of the
1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Touch of Love, The Rotters'
Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed
Circle, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep
(winner of the1998 Prix M dicis tranger), and The Rain Before it
Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His most recent novel is
The Rain Before It Falls
. He is also the author of
The Accidental Woman
,
A Touch of Love
,
The Dwarves of Death
,
What a Carve Up!
, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize,
The House of Sleep
, which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger,
The Rotter's Club
, winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize and
The Closed Circle
. He has also published a biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson, which
won the Orwell prize in 2005. He lives in London with his wife and two
children.
