Beloved Stranger by Boylan, Clare - 2000-06-01

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Abacus.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, minor rubs. Front corners and prelims creased. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases to spine not to hinge slight dish. Seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight colouration to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 309 pp. text. iii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but find yourself whistling when you're happy. Until the night she wakes to find her husband's pyjama'd bottom poking out from under the bed. He claims there's an intruder and he's got him in his sights. When she turns on the light he backs out, holding a shotgun. 'Bugger got away when you created a diversion' he says. The comic incident marks the start of Dick's terrifying plunge into insanity. Part love story, part thriller, BELOVED STRANGER is also, an analysis of marriage - a changeless institution in a vastly altered world, a private dictatorship where love and fear, tenderness or tyranny remain hidden at its heart. * This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. with some shelf wear & light usage.*