This is the most poorly written book I've read in a long time. How this book can be recommended by Iris Murdoch and Ted Hughes is beyond me. Could this be vanity published? The writer I see is married to a Saatchi and, after all, money talks. A cornucopia of boring sentences, cardboard characters and a slow, cliched plot. Dire. ( )

excellent story about obsession and betrayal. movie nowhere near as good.

I am always wary of telling people that this is one of my favourite books due to the nature of its story - a man who falls in lust with his son's fiancee, with horrifying results. And I am not sure that it is the story I like. Rather, it is Hart's beautiful prose.

The writing here is so economic, yet wonderfully descriptive - the small room that becomes the lovers tryst-loft, and the diary with a ribbon that marks when they will next meet is covered is simple yet evocotive prose. The opening page (of my copy anyway) would have to be some of the best paragraphs of prose in the English language. I would recommend the book for this page alone.This book reminds me of a lot of some French Erotic literature (i.e. The Story of O) more than any British writer.

This is a short book, so if you read it and don't like it you won't have wasted too much of your time on something you didn't like. But if you are like me, and can sometimes appreciate a book as much for how it is saying something as for what it is saying, I believe that Damage will have something for you. Either way, it is sure to touch you, by stirring some hidden corner of your soul, whether that is a corner you wanted to know or not. ( )

For anyone who has had a love affair with someone they can not have. Beautifully, poetically written. Truely shows the heart ache of the situation. ( )