Affliction - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

3.42

108 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006546838 ISBN 13: 9780006546832

Publisher: Flamingo, 1995

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When a marriage meets a therapist...

Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes likened to Meryl Streep. He with a son (Jason, eleven) from a previous marriage, she with a daughter (Susan, thirteen) from a ditto. He and she, after ten years, expecting their own baby. But on this, the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye as he leaves for the office.

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Review:

‘Meet the shrink from hell – alternately laughing and gasping, the reader follows Annette out of the pit and into the daylight...’
Miami Herald

‘Weldon scythes her way like a flymo...’
Times Educational Supplement

‘Affliction works like a slow-burning fuse...’
Independent on Sunday

‘It has crackling dialogue, tremendous pace and a monstrous husband called Spicer...’
Daily Telegraph

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"Meet the shrink from hell! – alternately laughing and gasping, the reader follows Annette out of the pit and into the daylight..."
MIAMI HERALD

"This brief, ferocious novel moves at a pace you would hardly believe..."
OBSERVER

Weldon scythes her way like a flymo..."
TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT

"Her most passionate book..."
GUARDIAN

"Affliction works like a slow-burning fuse..."
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

"Weldon writes as if she were Virginia Woolf and Roseanne Arnold joined at the hip. She is literary, well-read, totally in control, sharp as a needle and off the wall..."
MIRABELLA

"It has crackling dialogue, tremendous pace and a monstrous husband called Spicer..."
DAILY TELEGRAPH

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