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

[sleepyted]

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

Wuthering Heights

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.

sleep with me by joanna briscoe

There's always Lolita ...

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene - brilliant!

Will second "the end of the affair".

Also "The great gatsby"?

A good biography of Anne Boleyn

Thanks for these - any more?

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.

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)

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

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

Are you looking for pervy sex or the more longy, angsty stuff?

The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) is a good one for the latter category.

Snap!!

The Bridges of Madison County Cried buckets

Damn, you win.

It's fab though, just one of a few books I've read more than once as an adult.

Also On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulkes.
Actually thinking about it don't all his books have a destructive affair in them somewhere?

Gosh you sound like me I loved Anna Karenin ( i dont think it has an A on the end)! Also Therese Raquin and all Hardy has me weak at the knees

I am so INTRIGUED by that posy simmonds book as I love her illustrations and did not know she wrote

now who is that italian bloke ..he of Bitter Honeymoon...

Alberto Moravia
Its a long time since i read them but they are fab and he wrote a lot

OH look at THIS