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Loading... Wish Her Safe at Home (1982)by Stephen Benatar
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  klpm | Feb 27, 2016 |  Certainly a book not for the weak. This is a brilliant story that does involve insanity. Delusions run wild, just as the narrator voices exactly what we were thinking as well. But slip and slide we shall, and down to great depths of disrepair. Charming and evocative, this is a novel unfortunately rarely read. (  ) MSarki | Jan 23, 2016 | Picked this up at random on a library bookshelf and want to give myself a pat on the back for doing so. Benatar subtly handles the ever-increasing delusions of Rachel Waring in such as way that the reader can identify with and wish to defend and protect her. The only sense of place that is sharp and clear for the reader stems from Rachel's interior world. The "real" world is indistinct--so much so that I had to keep reminding myself that it was set in the 1980s and not decades earlier. I also had to give up trying to construct a solid visual of Rachel since her physical descriptions came solely from her own perception and those that are (possibly) trying to manipulate her. (  )1  helynrob | Aug 13, 2013 | bostonbibliophile | Jun 25, 2011 | A woman, Rachel, inherits from her aunt and decides to quit her boring office job and move out of London. She lives in her own house, on her own for the first time, and proceeds to make a new life for herself. As the book progresses, you realize that what may at first be thought of as merely eccentric behaviour could actually be something more serious ... http://lebookshelf.tumblr.com/post/4842008067/20-wish-her-safe-at-home-stephen-b... ( ) the_bookshelf | Jun 13, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own. No library descriptions found. |
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