Présentation de l'éditeur
A classic Cheek comedy of manners that will delight her many fans. When Marianne Flowers is invited to a party by a stranger, she has no idea that it is here that she will set eyes on the love of her life: a beautiful bathroom. She also meets Charles and experiences her first romance. Her dreams of escape from her childhood to a home of her own seem to be realised when he proposes. But marriage to Charles turns out to be far from liberating and soon Marianne is back in rented accommodation with a cramped bathroom and a sense that life is going on elsewhere. Charles's mother Jean has started feeding her with books - classics, feminist tracts - and soon Marianne realises that there is a whole world inside her mind. But how will this new independently minded Marianne fit in with a man's idea of what a woman should be? Mavis Cheek's thirteenth novel shows her at the height of her powers in this poignant, funny account of a woman whose journey to freedom, independence and great plumbing will delight fans of her previous work.
Biographie de l'auteur
Following a basic and unambitious education Mavis Cheek left school at sixteen with no academic qualifications, an ability to type very badly and the looks of a perfect dolly bird. She began her working life as a receptionist for Editions Alecto, where she began to learn about modern art.
After twelve happy years she left to attend Hillcroft College for Women where she graduated with a distinction. Shortly after this her daughter was born and she began her writing career in earnest. In 1988 her novel
Pause Between Acts won the
She/John Menzies First Novel Prize.
Mavis Cheek, like her heroine Marianne Flowers, lived in many different houses during those years, each reflecting another milestone in the development of her life. Though the book is fiction it is very much based on some of the places in which she lived and the absurd and tragicomic experiences she lived through or observed during those years.
