Second Skin - Rilegato

Perriam, Wendy

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ISBN 10: 0002254670 ISBN 13: 9780002254670

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1998

Riassunto

The story of a woman who, at a turning point in her life, casts aside convention and embarks on a heady new existence.

Catherine Jones, conscientious working wife and mother, is catapulted into a dramatic life-change. As the shock waves subside, she realises that she’s never had the chance to be her true self, never even considered who that self might be. Over the years she has become her own gaoler, someone merely waiting to live.

Peeling off her ‘second skin’ of duty, guilt and fear, she starts living with a vengeance. She joins a bohemian flat share in Camden Town with people little older than her own children. She takes a job in Camden market – a startling contrast to suburbia. She meets a poet, Will, and embarks on her first ever affair.

But her heady new existence is threatened by her family’s demands, even, paradoxically, by Will himself. At this turning point in her life, will she succeed in her bid for freedom and become the person she was born to be?

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Recensione:

‘One of the many unsung novelists of her generation. Intelligent and accessible, she is fighting for the same bit of turf as Joanne Trollope, but she is probably the more accomplished and varied writer of the two.’
Sunday Telegraph

‘Perriam is a writer of authority and skill, with a wicked ear for conversational quirks.’
Sunday Times

‘She has a considerable command of her craft, and a shrewd sense of those aspects of contemporary life which are worth recording.’
Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

Wendy Perriam was expelled from a strict convent boarding-school and escaped to St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she read History. After a stint in advertising and a succession of more offbeat jobs, she now writes full time.

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• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002254670
• ISBN 13: 9780002254670
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 448