And am no longer jealous of such, because I AM SAVED. ,y A l ison Webster The Tablet said of Wendy Perriam's SoFinspired novel LYING that it "should be the one novel everyone reads this year".
Wendy wrote about it in SOF, and ran a writers' workshop at last year's conference. Now the book is published in paperback (Peter Owen, £7.99). But Perriamites will also want her new (and first) collection of short stories, DREAMS, DEMONS AND DESIRE (Peter Owen, £10.95). There are 18 (to add to her 14 novels), and once you've started on them you'll find them hard to put down. Loss of certainty and security, of faith and innocence, are the themes to which she continually returns, always with a new twist. God - usually distant or dead - crops up continually, as does passion in all its forms, from religious devotion to devotionless sex. The Herald Tribune called her "one of the finest and funniest writers to emerge in England since Kingsley Amis". She's funny, she's provocative, she's ours! Enjoy!