Wish Her Safe At Home (New York Review Books) (New York Review Books (Paperback)) - Softcover

Stephen Benatar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159017335X ISBN 13: 9781590173350

Publisher: NYRB Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Who hasn't imagined winning the lottery or coming into an inheritance? Wouldn't it be great to chuck your old workaday life and live it up somewhere else? At the start of Wish Her Safe at Home, Rachel Waring seems to be experiencing a dream come true: out of nowhere, her great-aunt leaves her a mansion-and she moves in without delay. Gone is Rachel's administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. From now on she will be a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, and expression. She plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as we watch Rachel singing and joking away her days, we begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar has created a masterpiece of humor and horror. In the words of The Times Literary Supplement, Rachel is "Scarlett O'Hara, Blanche DuBois, Snow White, and Miss Havisham all rolled into one."

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Review:

This wonderful tale of eccentricity follows the transformation of dreary office worker Rachel Waring when she inherits a luxorious Georgian mansion. As her hold on reality gradually loosens the neighbours are left questioning her sanity. --Daily Express

[Benatar] is one of the talented. He writes wonderfully about failed lives, missed opportunities and the seductive dreams of second chances. Wish Her Safe at Home is a gripping and haunting story... --Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 159017335X
• ISBN 13: 9781590173350
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240