The Trouble-Makers Paperback / softback
by Celia Fremlin
Paperback / softback
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The Trouble-Makers (1963) was Celia Fremlin's fourth novel and - as Chris Simmons contends in his new preface to this Faber Finds edition - has a case to be considered among her very best. Katharine is a suburban housewife, desultorily unemployed, unhappily married, struggling to keep up appearances but consoled to some degree by the even more aggravated woes of her next-door neighbour Mary - until, that is, Katharine is brought to the disturbing realisation that Mary's predicament is in fact substantially worse. 'A cleverly devised story. A chorus of nicely-characterised suburban wives speculate on Mary's troubles.
Fremlin builds up the whole thing into a crescendo of horror.' Sunday Times'One again Fremlin shows how incomparably more chilling is her quiet, semifactual style than some of the hysterical sentimentalities from Over the Water.' Guardian
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:16/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780571312962
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:16/01/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571312962