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Nice little tales of obsessive, destructive affairs please...!

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sleepyted · 15/01/2007 19:39

Have just read "Killing Me Softly" by Nicci French but also loved Anna Karenina. Can anyone recommend anything to indulge my little fantasies please?!

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SmileysPeople · 15/01/2007 20:52

An/the (can't remember) Age of Innocence by Edith Warton.

Dinosaur · 15/01/2007 20:48

I have your email address at work, but annoyingly not here at home! But I will be in the office tomorrow so email me there. Or several mutual friends have my home email if it is urgent - motherinferior and blu both have it I think.

Bink · 15/01/2007 20:47

If you do Madame Bovary, as if you haven't you must, as it really is the masterpiece of this kind, you must also get the utterly wonderful Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds.

kikidee · 15/01/2007 20:46

I second Sleep With Me. Also Little Children by Tom Perotta.

Marina · 15/01/2007 20:46

"nice little tale"
Dino, I don't have your home e-mail. If you can remember mine can you drop me a line? If not I will mail you tomorrow.

Dinosaur · 15/01/2007 20:44

Possession, by AS Byatt? It's a bit long to count as a nice little tale, though...

Marina · 15/01/2007 20:39

Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, is about gay women in London in the second world war and includes infidelity to partners. It's pretty sad though.
Alison Lurie, The War Between The Tates, is a charmer in this category.
Piers Paul Read, A Married Man
Absolutely rate the F Tennyson Jesse (sobernow, do you remember this dramatised with Francesca Annis? top stuff)

Bink · 15/01/2007 20:32

Does it have to be the pure classic single-woman-married-bloke version? If so there is Rosamond Lehmann's Weather in the Streets (Virago).

If it can be just exquisitely awful obsessive love triangles etc. etc., then everything Thomas Hardy wrote. But especially Jude the Obscure.

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sleepyted · 15/01/2007 20:19

Thanks for these - any more?

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Greensleeves · 15/01/2007 20:06

A good biography of Anne Boleyn

Cloudhopper · 15/01/2007 20:05

Will second "the end of the affair".

Also "The great gatsby"?

paquette · 15/01/2007 20:01

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene - brilliant!

Bink · 15/01/2007 19:58

There's always Lolita ...

hoxtonchick · 15/01/2007 19:51

sleep with me by joanna briscoe

Bink · 15/01/2007 19:50

How about Elizabeth Smart? Considered to be a classic of the kind ... Particularly like how people who bought it off Amazon also were buying The Collected Morrissey.

Might depend on how purple you like your prose though.

I will have a further think. I love questions like this.

Sobernow · 15/01/2007 19:49

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itoa · 15/01/2007 19:49

Wuthering Heights

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