β Scribed by Benatar, Stephen
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This wonderful tale of eccentricity follows the transformation of dreary office worker Rachel Waring when she inherits a luxorious Georgian mansion. As her hold on reality gradually loosens the neighbours are left questioning her sanity. (Daily Express )
Let's hope this reissue cements its reputation. (Glasgow Herald )
A disturbing book that stays in your mind. (Daily Mail )
Joyously, seductively, ominously swept upuntil the last chapter. (Gloucestershire Echo )
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another cityand 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 Gardams oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.
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ISBN : 159017335X
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