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Download or read book Wendy Perriam written by Wendy Perriam and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five brilliant stories by the popular short story writer and novelist, Wendy Perriam, who is much praised for her story collections, which boldly mix sex, religion and humour.
Download or read book Broken Places written by Wendy Perriam and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether braving speed-dating, running Wandsworth Prison Book Club, attending an American Church that champions the Gospel of Prosperity, or rescuing his daughter from near-rape, Eric finally comes to epitomize the truth of Hemingway's words: 'The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places'.
Download or read book An Enormous Yes written by Wendy Perriam and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of women, all with very different ideas as to what constitutes the good life. For Hanna, 95, it’s always been based on duty, piety, and service to others, but for her granddaughter, Amy, it means wealth success and status. Amy’s mother, Maria, is more ambivalent; attracted by both Hanna’s high ideals and by the new hedonistic lifestyle she encounters when, after the death of her mother, she moves from Hanna’s shabby Northumberland cottage to Amy’s stylish London home. After 39 years of celibacy, her second self – a wild sensualist-in-waiting – is awakened by the passionate artist, Felix, who also encourages her long-dormant artistic talents. But should she say ‘an enormous yes’ to a new life of sexual and artistic self-fulfilment, or follow her mother’s example and devote herself to Amy, now pregnant with her first child? An Enormous Yes poses fundamental questions about what constitutes living well, and the choices we are forced to make between wants and needs, ideals and rights; exploring the conflicting claims of entitlement versus duty and responsibility. It pits our image-based, celebrity-obsessed culture against more enduring values, and, in chronicling a passionate relationship between two people in their sixties, challenges society’s myth that sex is only for the young. Perriam’s powerful and life-affirming new novel combines some of today’s most controversial issues with all the exuberance and sexual daring that have made her name.
Book Synopsis Dreams, Demons and Desire by : Wendy Perriam
Download or read book Dreams, Demons and Desire written by Wendy Perriam and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Perriam's first collection of short stories is remarkable for its range. A docile civil servant chooses the public baths as the setting for his private Armageddon; a widow's new false nails are the unlikely trigger for her release from pent-up grief; a couple bereft without their beloved dog conjure it into existence; a frustrated Sunday painter devours eleven farmhouse loaves at a sitting. Many of the characters are fighting personal demons -- anger, fear, jealousy, obsession -- or are torn between submission and murderous revenge. Others are dreamers, inhabiting their own secret worlds, or forced to come to terms with loss -- loss of certainty and security, of faith, innocence or freedom. Love goes spectacularly wrong: spouses, moving along parallel lines, fail to commune; sons defy mothers; mothers mourn lost daughter; lovers are symbolically exterminated.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Margarine by : Wendy Perriam
Download or read book The Queen's Margarine written by Wendy Perriam and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short-stories in which the mundane goes hand in hand with the miraculous - and even the Queen eats margarine.
Book Synopsis The Stillness The Dancing by : Wendy Perriam
Download or read book The Stillness The Dancing written by Wendy Perriam and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by God and her husband, twin totems of her life to date, Morna Gordon embarks on a voyage of discovery, travelling first to California where she undergoes a series of extraordinary experiences, ending up in Disneyland, ‘the happiest place on earth’ – though not for her. Shaken, she flees to a near-deserted island in the Hebrides where David, historian and researcher, is working on the Life of a seventh-century saint. Morna, translator by profession, has to learn, through David and his saint, a new interpretation of the world. Her contribution to his work helps forge a powerful bond between them, and slowly, movingly, and despite the still smarting slap-down of the Catholic Church, they discover body as well as soul. The novel also explores the lives of Morna’s mother and daughter, charting Bea’s private crisis of faith and Chris’s stormy journey to maturity. Complex ties and tensions bind these three generations of women, all of whom suffer a ‘sea-change’. The Stillness The Dancing juxtaposes youth with age, the rational with the numinous, subatomic physics with ancient pagan ritual, the grab-all twentieth century with the hair-shirt idealism of the Age of the Saints. It is a novel full of contrasts – switching boldly from humour to tragedy and broaching vital themes of faith and doubt, sham and self-delusion, while losing nothing of the uninhibited exuberance for which Wendy Perriam is known. ‘Unashamedly sexual, yet profoundly spiritual . . . a remarkable novel. It must be read.’ Fay Weldon
Book Synopsis The Death of a Child by : Peter Stanford
Download or read book The Death of a Child written by Peter Stanford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief. Their experiences range from the earliest losses - actress and author Carol Drinkwater's miscarriages, Irish writer Catherine Dunne's still-birth and the death of Sarah Brown's daughter Jennifer at ten days old - right up to campaigner Augusto Odone losing his severely disabled son, Lorenzo, the day after his 30th birthday, or novelist Wendy Perriam coping with the death of her daughter, Pauline, when she was 43. The essays reflect the different causes of bereavement - illness (brief and long-term), accident, and malice. The collection ends with a reflection by the celebrated psychotherapist, Dorothy Rowe, on surviving the loss of a child, and a glossary of useful organisations.
Book Synopsis Fifty-Minute Hour by : Wendy Perriam
Download or read book Fifty-Minute Hour written by Wendy Perriam and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I like to hear his name, especially when he says it. His voice is rich and dark, like those jams they sell in tiny pots at twice the price of normal jars, and they call “preserves”, to justify the cost. I chose him for his name, in fact – half Mayfair hairdresser and half Vatican incumbent.’ So speaks Nial, a woman with a man’s name, and confused about her gender – uncertain about most things, save her obsession with John-Paul. She shares this obsession with modest Mary and conscientious Bryan. All three lead secret lives. Mary, a conventional housewife with a dream-home in the suburbs, is inflicting burns on her genitals and stockpiling vibrators; Bryan, a mother-harried city clerk, updates his Disaster Scrapbook and takes his snake to bed, seeking refuge from Chaology and the horrors of the quantum revolution; Nial swaps sex for blood-drenched dreams of an ex-Naxi butcher in the High Street. All seek help and healing from the mysterious John-Paul, but is he sage and saviour, or untrained unlicensed con-man? In her powerful and hilarious new novel, Wendy Perriam mixes the blackest of black comedy with a serious examination of madness in its many forms – the religious excesses of miracles and visions; the crazy chaos of modern phsyics; and especially the distortions of the fifty-minute hour itself; those wild or weeping sessions on the analyst’s couch. With her usual wit and gusto, she explores the murky world of the psychologically disturbed – a world as comically bizarre as it is genuinely tragic. ‘A screamingly funny book which almost blows the mind and will outrage the prudish.’ Sunday Telegraph
Book Synopsis Breaking and Entering by : Wendy Perriam
Download or read book Breaking and Entering written by Wendy Perriam and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel has reached the dangerous age of forty and has just embarked on his first affair – a source of mingled guilt and ecstasy. His wife, Penny, seems unaware, but, worryingly, his thirteen-year-old stepdaughter has stopped speaking. He first met Penny and Pippa in Paris – two flame-haired innocents abroad, as seemingly happy-go-lucky as he was conventional and shy. Now, nine years on, Pippa is mute, Penny frustrated, and Daniel himself torn between his mistress and his family. The pressures slowly build, until at last he agrees to visit a Welsh healer who has set up camp on the site of a derelict lead-mine in one of the remotest parts of Wales. As a child of only seven, Daniel had been sent away to boarding school in Wales and, after the horror of his ‘prison-years’, has vowed never to return there. The grim memories blast back, however, once he sets foot in the camp and, though the healer may be a charlatan and his fellow campers range from the bizarre to the plain batty, he is forced to realize that it is he who is in need of healing as much as Pippa. In a dramatic climax in which father, daughter and healer are finally reconciled, Daniel exchanges his narrow view of life for one more open to mystery and the numinous, and at last understands the healer’s words about grace ‘breaking and entering’ his soul. In this, her eleventh novel, Perriam examines disability in its many different guises, and the true meaning of healing; combining such challenging themes with the wit, exuberance and sexual daring which have made her name.
Book Synopsis I Am Charlotte Simmons by : Tom Wolfe
Download or read book I Am Charlotte Simmons written by Tom Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.
Book Synopsis Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR by : Robynn J. Stilwell
Download or read book Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR written by Robynn J. Stilwell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the long history of music in film, its serious academic study is still a relatively recent development and therefore comprises a limited body of work. The contributors to this book, drawn from both film studies and musicology, attempt to rectify this oversight by investigating film music from the vibrant, productive, politically charged period before World War II. They apply a variety of methodologies—including archival work, close readings, political histories, and style comparison—to this under explored field.
Download or read book Coupling written by Wendy Perriam and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary tale of obsession, sexual confusion and, ultimately, redemption from the author of Breaking and entering.
Book Synopsis The Queen of Subtleties by : Suzannah Dunn
Download or read book The Queen of Subtleties written by Suzannah Dunn and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.
Download or read book Second Skin written by Wendy Perriam and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘It seems crazy that in all that time I never stopped to think what I was actually cut out to do or be. But I’m sure I’m not unusual. There must be hundreds of people stuck in jobs they hate, or married to the wrong partner, or trying to be someone they’re not. It’s such an awful waste.’ Catherine Jones – conscientious working wife and mother – is catapulted into a dramatic life-change. As the shock waves subside, she realises that she’s never had the chance to be her true self, never even considered who that self might be. Over the years she has become her own gaoler, someone merely waiting to live. Peeling off her ‘second skin’ of duty, guilt and fear, she starts living with a vengeance. She joins a bohemian flat share in Camden Town with people little older than her own children. She takes a job in Camden market – a startling contrast to suburbia. She meets a poet, Will, and embarks on her first ever affair. But her heady new existence is threatened by her family’s demands, even, paradoxically, by Will himself. At this turning point in her life, will she succeed in her bid for freedom and become the person she was born to be? In this, her thirteenth novel, Perriam espouses a new optimism, while losing none of the wit, sexual daring and psychological insight which have made her name. ‘Perriam must be a contender for Britain’s most underrated novelist.’ Daily Telegraph
Download or read book Sin City written by Wendy Perriam and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norah Toomey and Carole Joseph have always been losers - thrown together by chance in a seedy psychiatric hospital - until Carole wins a holiday for two in Las Vegas. They take wing together: eighteen-year-old Carole, with her seesaw moods and explosive sexuality, egging on the shy, unworldly Norah, whose only break from a lifetime of institutions has been the annual day trip to Littlehampton. But Las Vegas isn't Littlehampton, as these two innocents discover to their cost as they are plunged into a world of strippers and gamblers, brothels and crime. The pair are both dazzled and duped by America's glitziest - and saddest - hot-spot, where sex-shows throb with phoney passion, Godmen tout for cash, and Lady Luck rules and ruins lives. Carole seeks to win at romance as well as at roulette, but her wedding plans go disastrously awry and she lands up working in a whorehouse in Nevada, while poor confused Norah settles for marriage to St Joseph.
Download or read book Bird Inside written by Wendy Perriam and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of runaway Jane, her young dreams shattered by the secret in her parents' past and her initiation into the rites of a sophisticated world.
Download or read book After Purple written by Wendy Perriam and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
