Truth and Consequences

Alison Lurie author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:18th Mar '21

£9.99

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Truth and Consequences cover

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. Sometimes she longs for escape.

Delia is a writer and researcher specialising in fairy tales - she is, in her own estimation, a 'Great Artist'. Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation.

Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the two couples break out of their fixed roles?

'I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to [Lurie], lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, her witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational' Helen Simpson

I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to [Lurie], lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, her witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational. -- Helen Simpson
Mordant and entertaining, and wonderfully expansive about a time, a place, and the corrosive effect of selfishness * Spectator *
Hours of bitter-sweet, highly intelligent fun * Scotsman *
An enjoyably spiky minuet of human selfishness * The Times *
Sly and funny. A deeply pleasurable page-turner * Observer *

ISBN: 9781784876296

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 195g

240 pages