
Wish Her Safe At Home
by Stephen Banatar
Title:
Wish Her Safe At Home
Author:
Stephen Banatar
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
280 pages
Publisher:
New York Review Books
ISBN-13:
9781590173350
EAN:
9781590173350
Publication Date:
19/01/2010
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
404
Dimensions (mm):
203 x 130 x 15
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far.In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam’s oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.










