VINTAGE CLASSICS : TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES PB – ALISON LURIE

"<p><b> Delightful… Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect <i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br /><br />Alan has changed because he s injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him – fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. Sometimes she longs for escape.<br /><br />Delia is a writer and researcher specialising in fairy tales – she is, in her own estimation, a Great Artist . Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation.<br /><br />Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the two couples break out of their fixed roles?<br /><br /><b> I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you re new to [Lurie], lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, her witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational Helen Simpson</b></p>"