Way Out of Berkeley Square

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ISBN: 9781784879310
Title: Way Out of Berkeley Square
Author: TONKS ROSEMARY

Another outstandingly wry and funny novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater

Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman’s desperate quest for freedom.

‘I’m thirty, and I’m stuck’

Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable?

Back in print after many decades, this is an outstanding novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks.

‘Salted with wit and peppered with clever images’ Guardian

‘Writing like this…is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London’ Michael Hoffman, Poetry Foundation

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02/05/2024
Pages: 208
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