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Claustrophobia is the taut, compelling story of a young Perth wife who sets about to protect her husband by stalking his ex-lover, but unexpectedly falls into a passionate affair with her!
Penelope Barber, happily married, finds a decade-old letter written by her husband to his ex-lover, Kathleen. It convinces her that their marriage had been built on nothing but a lie, and the recipient of the letter becomes the object of her obsession. But instead of finding a dangerous villain, Penelope encounters a beautiful and intelligent woman, and they tumble into an affair.
In a novel that possesses the dark wit, psychological insight and narrative momentum of a Patricia Highsmith novel, Tracy Ryan captures the disturbing elements that sometimes lurk beneath the surface of a marriage. The realities of obsessive attachment and social isolation are explored through a deft and thought-provoking look at a complex personality and a plot that twists its page-turning way into our psyche.
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014
Author: Tracy Ryan