Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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He climbs up a flight of stairs to the top floor, opens the unlocked door to the apartment, and is shocked to see his father making love to his fiancée. There are so many themes and analogies in this book, it’s difficult to know where to begin… Actually, can you move past the fact that Stephen is sleeping with his son’s girlfriend? For as long as it lasts, Martyn, his son, has no idea that his father is having an extramarital affair with his girlfriend (and later fiancée), and Anna does not seem to mind being a young man's partner and simultaneously his father's lover and object of desire. there are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. This book cannot be considered on a morality spectrum about the failings of the 20th century London ruling elite.

The MP runs down the stairs completely naked, finding Martyn dead, sprawled out on the ground floor. Anna immediately acknowledges the erotic bond between them, and the two begin a frenzied affair, its moral complications exacerbated by the fact that Anna is the narrator's son's fiancee. In his seventh outing, Burke, Vachss's flinty ex-con and relentless crusader for abused kids last featured in Sacrifice , is still reeling after having killed a kid in a previous case gone sour. A second screen adaptation has been released in April 2023 as a four-part limited series for Netflix, under the title Obsession.It’s the story of Stephen Fleming, a man who seemingly has everything – wealth, a beautiful wife (Ingrid), two children (Martyn and Sally), and a prestigious political career in Parliament. There are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. In addition, cool, self-confident Anna warns that she was irreparably damaged by her brother's suicide: ``Damaged people are dangerous. Sometimes they simply shift the ground under me, so that I stand on different earth, and something or someone has been swallowed up.

This amazing short book is a profound essay not so much on the theme of “erotic obsession” as the author claims, but on the very nature of human attachment and the obsession with fusion with the other. After Damage and Sin comes Oblivion--and that's just what most readers will wish for as they peruse the pages of this pretentious novel. You have to accept either as a possibility to become completely absorbed in Damage by Josephine Hart. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. I have read all of her five novels and eagerly awaited the next one when by chance learned of her death.Dazed and utterly confused, he tumbles backwards, hits the low banister and falls down the stairwell. This spare, dreamlike first novel comes festooned with blurbs from the likes of Ruth Rendell and Iris Murdoch, and no wonder, for it's an unforgettable tale of sexual obsession and its calamitous consequences.

The unnamed narrator seems to say to us I cannot repent for to do so would be to deny the very thing which brought me into existence. Some find it in the place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert.

From a psychological point of view this might be seen also as primal original event which will set into motion an avalanche of other equally inescapable and devastating events that will impact upon the lives of those at the epicentre and those at the peripheries. A post-theatre dinner with Ed Victor, whom I did not know well at that time, resulted in his request to see the opening chapters of this novel, the writing of which my husband believed was "what I should be doing". A woman I had known only days, to whom I had spoken only a few sentences, watched me betray my wife and my son. On a superficial level this might be about a moment of falling in love, but it is a lot deeper than that.

For the first time in an outwardly lucky life, he feels passion and joy, emotions that a longtime ``happy'' marriage and fatherhood have never generated. A shocking novel about passion and betrayal, about a British politician who, in the prime of life and seems to have everything causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. Always an obsessive reader, I had read six books a week during a particular four years in a small town in Ireland after a double family tragedy, and continued this voracious consumption of novels after I left Ireland. Some of the people she encountered saw that trail and run away, most did not see it but were attracted to the sheer hypnotic elegance of the movement.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Josephine Hart must have recognized the force majeure in her own writing when she abandoned the first page of the novel as yet unwritten. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming and ultimately catastrophic relationship with his son’s fiancée.