This darkly humorous novel of a woman’s inner musings on motherhood, betrayal, dreams -- and the unpredictable emotions that surround them -- is “so moving, so funny, so desperate, so alive . . . one to be greatly enjoyed” (The New York Times)....
A peakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion -- “her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)A bourgeois housewife, Ruth Whiting, is “paralysed by triviality,” measuring out...