Book description
Susan finds her year-old marriage to Alistair less than ideal. Just
as she contemplates leaving him, she discovers that she is pregnant
with his child. As she grapples with this news, she learns that her
loathed father has killed himself. Left confused and bereft by these
developments and haunted by visions of a little boy, she meets a
seductive young painter and, despite knowing it could lead to crisis,
begins an affair with him in her eighth month of pregnancy.
Told with an eye for startling details and an unerring sense for
psychological truth, this harrowing, passionate, obsessively
compelling literary debut captures the reality of a young woman's
inner landscape while spinning a tale that will hypnotise readers to
its last satisfying pages.
Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham in 1960. She is the author of
The Touch
(1996),
Me and the Fat Man
(1998),
Laura Blundy
(2000),
Something Might Happen
(2003)
The Story of You
(2006),
Out of Breath
(2008) and
Then
(2011). She lives in London.
