Michael, Michael - Hardcover

Perriam, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002240378 ISBN 13: 9780002240376

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

On a rainy May morning in Oxford, eighteen-year-old Oxford student Tessa Reeves has a close shave with death when Dr Michael Edwards almost runs her over in his scarlet MG. By way of apology, he treats her to a lavish breakfast in a country hotel, and over strawberries, steak and champagne, she first experiences his greed – a greed which later culminates in electrifying sex. Tessa a different world, feels overawed by the pressured mystique of Oxford. But the charismatic Michael - named after an archangel, the conqueror of Satan - boosts her spirits and her status, and fires her own ambition. But after the affair turns sour, Tessa searches with increasing desperation for her lost lover, and later for his surrogate and namesake, the suburban GP, Dr Michael Edwards, with whom she develops a bizarre non-relationship. Love becomes obsession, and her quest for Michael takes over her whole life. On a second fateful May Day the following year, she finds her own fruition in an extraordinary consummation.

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Perriam has been writing since the age of 5, completing her first 'novel', "A Pony At Last", on her 12th birthday. Expelled from boarding school for heresy – and told she was in danger of eternal damnation - she escaped to Oxford, where she read History and also trod the boards. After a variety of offbeat jobs, ranging from artist's model to carnation-disbudder to researcher on medieval cookery, she now divides her time between teaching and writing. Having begun by writing poetry, she went on to publish 17 novels and 7 short-story collections. Her work boldly mixes sex, religion and humour, and has been acclaimed for its psychological insight and its power to disturb, divert and shock. She has also written extensively for newspapers and magazines, and was a regular contributor to radio programmes such as "Stop the Week" and "Fourth Column". Perriam feels that her many conflicting life experiences – strict convent-school discipline and swinging-sixties wildness, marriage and divorce, infertility and motherhood, 9-to-5 conformity and periodic Bedlam – have helped shape her as a writer. 'Writing allows for shadow-selves. I'm both the staid conformist matron and the slag; the well-organised author toiling at her desk and the madwoman shrieking in a straitjacket.'

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0002240378
• ISBN 13: 9780002240376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304