Michael, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Perriam, Wendy

Contemporary

Harpercollins

Breaking and Entering

Flamingo

Born Of Woman

By the same author as "Devils for A Change", "Sin City", "Born of Woman" and "After Purple", this comedy of manners revolves around three people's obsession with one man - John-Paul, a psychoanalyst who becomes an object of obsession for three of his patients in their 50-minute couch sessions.

Fifty-minute Hour

HarperCollins, Publishers

In this sparkling and ironic study of the complexities of love, Ginny Barnes is wrenched out of her suburban cul-de-sac into a brutal five-star passion and forced to choose between her decaffeinated low-cholesterol husband Ian and her high-calorie lover Caldos de Roche, a gourmet psychoanalyst who seeks fame and fortune by selling Happiness like hamburgers.  De Roche is aiming to transform not only what he sees as his impotent profession, but also once-a-Catholic Ginny, still tied to home and children, and obsessed with guilt and sin. Far from impotent himself, he woos her with heavenly pleasures and earthly appetites, combining sacred and profane, making highly unconventional love to a background of church music, and trying to coax a dazzling social butterfly from a drab and cosy chrysalis. The new glossy gift-wrapped Ginny, torn between the risk of eternal damnation by a God she only half believes in and the god she sees in Caldos himself, discovers that even heaven-on-earth can be hell.  Who will win her allegiance - her husband, her lover, or her God?

Absinthe for Elevenses

Humor & Satire

GRAFTON

Recounts the entertaining, shocking story of the involvement of Thea Morton, an unconventional woman, with both sex and the Roman Catholic Church

After Purple

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

Jennifer Winterton and her family face the disrupting results of sudden fame after she publishes her late mother-in-law's country journals

Born of Woman

Bourbon for breakfast

DOUBLEDAY

It has been estimated that each of us tells up to 180 lies a day. This is a novel about lying and deception and the price we pay for it. Alison falls in love with an older man, James, a well-to-do accountant from an ultra-Catholic family. She is from an ordinary background and rarely sets foot in a church. She wins his love and marries, but five years later she finds herself compelled to live a double life, upholding truths in public she privately abhors. The strain of this deception coupled with a deep sadness at their failure to conceive a child leads her into an affair. Lie piles upon lie as she begins to see falsehood everywhere. When she discovers that even James is entangled in deception, her world begins to crumble.

Lying

Peter Owen Ltd

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