A Grain Of Truth
- ISBN-10
- 0748127593
- ISBN-13
- 9780748127597
- Series
- A Grain of Truth
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-03
- Publisher
- Virago
- Author
- Nina Bawden
Description
Emma's anxious and manipulative plea, 'Someone listen to me', opens- and closes- this deliciously uncomfortable novel in which Nina Bawden explores myriad emotional disguises with her characteristic acuity. When Emma's father-in-law falls down the stairs to his death, she is convinced she pushed him in an act of wish-fulfilment. To her husband Henry and her close friend Holly, this is unthinkable. Guilt is simply Emma's obsession in a humdrum domestic existence enlivened by romantic fantasy. For Holly, who successfully fields a string of love affairs, sexual pleasures are more easily attainable, whereas Henry, a Divorce lawyer, prides himself on being a realist. Each tells their story in turn, illuminating and distorting their separate versions of the truth. As they do so, an intricate jigsaw of the private deceits with which they shore up everyday life emerges.
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Other editions
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- 2001
- 170 pages
- Paperback
- Rowman & Littlefield
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