Broken Places - Hardcover

Wendy Perriam

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ISBN 10: 0709090986 ISBN 13: 9780709090984

Publisher: Robert Hale & Company, 2010

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About the Author:

Wendy Perriam has been writing since the age of five. Her fifteen previous novels, which include Absinthe for Elevenses, Sin City, Fifty-Minute Hour and Coupling, have been acclaimed for their psychological insight and their power to disturb, divert and intrigue. Her subsequent six short-story collections explore themes of loss, rebellion and escape. This is her first novel in eight years. Expelled from her convent boarding school for heresy, she read History at Oxford 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 writing and teaching. 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.'

Review:

"One of the finest and funniest writers to emerge in England since Kingsley Amis." Herald Tribune "One of the most interesting unsung novelists of her generation. Intelligent and accessible... she writes beautifully about relationships and hilariously about sex." Sunday Telegraph Perriam is one of the funniest writers around. Daily Telegraph Perriam is a real find - she has that magical combination of a brisk, lively style and a literate intelligence. Sunday Express 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 Perriam's shrewd, sharp prose style is complemented by a marvellous talent for satirical observation. The Scotsman Perriam is the writer who makes purple prose a term of approval. Nobody does deep feelings better. Sunday Times Perriam's strength is emotional accuracy. She draws convincing characters and poignant situations, and the reader can't help but be emotionally involved. The Spectator Perriam must be one of the most underrated writers in the country. But in an oeuvre of nearly 20 books, she has proved a consistently sharp chronicler of modern Britain. She is also an extremely entertaining storyteller. Sunday Telegraph Perriam makes waves with her novels because each of them is an unusually honest projection of her personality and each is sustained by a fine command of her craft. Glasgow Herald Perriam is sometimes very funny, sometimes very sexual, sometimes very painful, and always difficult to pin down. Standard Literary, funny, moving - in a word, wonderful. Daily Mail I am her greatest fan. Fay Weldon"

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