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Wendy Perriam was expelled from a strict convent boarding-school and escaped to St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she read History. After a stint in advertising and a succession of more offbeat jobs, she now writes full time.

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Beattie’s lover Max has given her a very special birthday present – a weekend at England’s most exclusive health farm. But if he had known what was to happen there, he would have bought her a diamond instead. For thirty year old Beattie, who has always fancied men, suddenly finds herself attracted to a woman – a woman twenty years older, a grandmother, even. Her initial infatuation erupts into a passion which threatens to take over her life as, desperately, she seeks admission into Elizabeth’s inner sanctum – her work as a psychotherapist, her family, her very soul.

Wendy’s Perriam’s genius at putting ordinary people into extraordinary situations is seen to brilliant effect in this intriguing story of obsession, sexual confusion and, ultimately, redemption, as Beattie moves beyond jealousy to forgiveness and self fulfilment.

“She writes to shock; she is keen to tell us that she doesn’t give two hoots for social conventions, and that she wants to destroy the imprisoning restrictions that govern women’s lives”
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“One of the finest and funniest writers to emerge in England since Kingsly Amis”
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“Perriam is a writer of authority and skill, with a wicked ear for conversational quirks”
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“She writes beautifully about relationships and hilariously about sex”
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