When I Was Otherwise (Welbeck Modern Classics) - Softcover
Two women looking back over fifty years: one full of regret, the other not admitting to mistakes and continuing to be fiercely positive. Which approach, in the end, is likely to prove more satisfying―both for Daisy herself and for those who live around her?
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London born, Stephen Benatar's first novel was published when he was 44, and he acknowledges the support and inspiration of Pamela Hansford Johnson in this achievement. Seven more novels followed, including, uniquely, one published by a borough council. Having established both his literary reputation and sales prowess through his own press, Welbeck, Stephen is now also published by Capuchin Classics and NYRB.
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“Particularly welcome . . . Funny, outrageous and unpatronizing . . . a cunning, convincing novel that, dealing primarily with the past, manages to be more up-to-date in its observations than the majority of contemporary satires.” —The Scotsman
“This book is remarkably convincing . . . One’s first reaction on finishing the novel is ‘Goodness, how sad!’ One’s second is ‘Goodness, how funny!’ —Francis King, The Spectator
“Benatar writes with wit and humour about subjects most writers do not tackle—ageing, age, the frequent nastiness of family life.” —Doris Lessing
“An intriguing, funny, sometimes exciting and, finally, sad story; the elegant idiosyncrasy of the author’s viewpoint, which made Wish Her Safe At Home so enjoyably inventive without discarding a carefully controlled narrative, here creates a moving story from what might at first appear to be the elements of a black farce.” —Christopher Hawtree, The Literary Review
“Arnold Bennett, reflecting with satisfaction on the ability of his novel, The Old Wives’ Tale, to give an authentic sense of the passage of time, once observed complacently that ‘it isn’t in many books that you can see people growing old.’ Much to its credit, When I Was Otherwise is such a book.” —Peter Kemp, The Times Literary Supplement
“This book is remarkably convincing . . . One’s first reaction on finishing the novel is ‘Goodness, how sad!’ One’s second is ‘Goodness, how funny!’ —Francis King, The Spectator
“Benatar writes with wit and humour about subjects most writers do not tackle—ageing, age, the frequent nastiness of family life.” —Doris Lessing
“An intriguing, funny, sometimes exciting and, finally, sad story; the elegant idiosyncrasy of the author’s viewpoint, which made Wish Her Safe At Home so enjoyably inventive without discarding a carefully controlled narrative, here creates a moving story from what might at first appear to be the elements of a black farce.” —Christopher Hawtree, The Literary Review
“Arnold Bennett, reflecting with satisfaction on the ability of his novel, The Old Wives’ Tale, to give an authentic sense of the passage of time, once observed complacently that ‘it isn’t in many books that you can see people growing old.’ Much to its credit, When I Was Otherwise is such a book.” —Peter Kemp, The Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherWelbeck Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0955475759
- ISBN 13 9780955475757
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages301
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