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Guilty Creatures: A Sharp Domestic Satire Where Fame and Family Secrets Collide - Softcover

Welfare, Sue

 
9780007106578: Guilty Creatures: A Sharp Domestic Satire Where Fame and Family Secrets Collide

Synopsis

A warm and witty contemporary novel from the author of MOVING ON UP

Mim Pilgrim is so fed up with her husband that she's driven to exploring the full length of her window-cleaner's tattoo. Fisher (once known as Frank) Pilgrim doesn't notice; he's a TV shrink on the verge of his big break, and although he's officially an expert on family matters he also hasn't noticed that his daughter has something more than a teenage crush on her drama teacher and his adolescent son is suffering an overwhelming dose of hormonal disruption.

But a promotable family background is good for Fisher's image, and so when Mim becomes acquainted with an eminent literary figure, he and his producer decide to make the most of it. It's a catalyst for chaos, and before long everyone is entangled in a situation way beyond the reaches of pop psychology – but which might benefit from Mim's straight talking…

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About the Author

Married with four sons, Sue Welfare is a writer with eight erotic novels to her credit, but finds that this is one of the worst-kept secrets in East Anglia. She was runner-up in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ novel competition in 1995, and winner of the Wyrd Short Story prize in the same year.

From the Back Cover

Mim Pilgrim is so fed up with her husband that she's driven to exploring the full length of her window-cleaner's tattoo. Fisher (once known as Frank) Pilgrim doesn't notice; he's a TV shrink on the verge of his big break, and although he's officially an expert on family matters he also hasn't noticed that his daughter has something more than a teenage crush on her drama teacher and his adolescent son is suffering an overwhelming dose of hormonal disruption.

But a promotable family background is good for Fisher's image, and so when Mim becomes acquainted with an eminent literary figure, he and his producer decide to make the most of it. It's a catalyst for chaos, and before long everyone is entangled in a situation way beyond the reaches of pop psychology

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