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.
- ISBN10 0385475063
- ISBN13 9780385475068
- Publish Date 1 January 1995 (first published 9 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Nan A. Talese
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 207
- Language English