L'écriture de Wendy Perriam est profondément façonnée par les contrastes saisissants de sa vie, de la discipline conventuelle stricte à la liberté des années soixante, du mariage et du divorce, de l'infertilité et de la maternité. Ses romans et recueils de nouvelles sont célébrés pour leur capacité à déranger, divertir et choquer, explorant les aspects les plus sombres et contradictoires de l'expérience humaine. Perriam conçoit l'écriture comme un espace pour les 'moi ombres', lui permettant d'incarner des identités disparates, de la matrone rangée à la 'garce', de l'auteure organisée à la 'folle criant dans une camisole de force'. Cette exploration des facettes complexes et souvent troublantes de l'existence rend son œuvre captivante et stimulante pour les lecteurs.
Three generations of women, all with very different ideas as to what constitutes the good life. 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.
Alison Ward, an idealistic young editor in a publishing house, falls obsessionally in love with an older man, James Egerton, seemingly out of reach on both social and religious grounds. Why should a Cambridge-educated accountant from a well-to-do, ultra-Catholic family be attracted to someone of modest means and background who has rarely set foot inside a church (and whose father moreover dismisses all religion as claptrap)? Against the odds, she wins his love but, five years into their marriage, finds herself leading a double life, upholding "truths" in public which privately she abhors. The strain of this deception, coupled with deep sadness at their failure to conceive a longed-for child, eventually leads her into an affair. As lie piles on lie, she is horrified at her own faithlessness. Why, when she loves her devout and devoted husband, is she sloping off with a scruffy, layabout barman she doesn't even like? She begins to see falsehood everywhere—in advertising and politics, even science and medicine—and above all in the constricting religion of her husband and his family. Yet James's faith is an essential part of him, his virtue and integrity the very qualities that first attracted her; thus the discovery that even he is entangled in deception comes as a profound shock
Ein Wochenende auf einer Schönheitsfarm führt zwei Frauen zusammen, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein können: Beattie Cook, ehrgeizige Journalistin; Elizabeth Hargreaves, frisch geschieden und vierfache Mutter. Sie verlieben sich ineinander und geraten in ein verwirrendes Auf und Ab der Gefühle. Subtiler Roman über Liebe, Treue, Eifersucht.
Heißhunger Frauen. - bk1910; Bastei Verlag Gustav Lübbe; Wandy Perriam; pocket_book; 1997
Charts the rites of passage of a young girl obsessed with three Michaels, and her journey through gloriously uninhibited physical passion to bizarre consummation and sacrament.
Traumkind gesucht - bk997; Bastei Lübbe; Wendy Perriam; pocket_book; 1994
