Author: | Beryl Bainbridge |
Language | English |
Pages: | 224 |
ISBN10: | 0786709359 |
Genre: | Fiction |
Goodreads Rating: | 3.31 |
ISBN13: | 9780786709359 |
Published: | August 12th 2001 by Da Capo Press |
After nearly thirty years of marriage, a Victorian clergyman, John Selby Watson, bludgeons his wife to death one Sunday afternoon after church. In this compelling tale by award-winning novelist Beryl Bainbridge, the seemingly ordinary history of their marriage unfolds until it climaxes in a sudden brutal act and a headline-grabbing trial.
As true to the documented facts of this actual case as to the workings of her singular imagination, Bainbridge artfully reveals what history withholds: the motives, feelings, and insanity that drive the Watsons to their domestic tragedy.