Author:Danielle Steel
Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman, and Jack is the head of her network and an adviser to the President on media issues. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the locked doors of their lush Georgetown home, a very different story emerges. For as Maddy's career soars, a bitter edge of control and jealousy has crept in, so that the woman the nation idolises lives in degradation and fear. The cruelty she experiences at Jack's hands leaves no bruises, no scars, only the wounds of fear, humiliation and isolation.
Maddy's journey to healing begins when the President's wife offers her the opportunity to join her newly-formed Commission on Violence against Women. There Maddy hears chilling stories from terrified wives and girlfriends that sound eerily familiar. And there she meets Bill Alexander, a distinguished scholar and diplomat who also works on the commission. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy's marriage and, as she takes the first steps towards freedom, a remarkable series of events begin to unfold. White House headlines bring the country to a standstill, and a devastating tragedy occurs which forces Maddy to realise just how much she has lost - her confidence, her trust, her self-respect. As her journey comes to a close, she finds a strength she never knew she had...and a gift which will change her life forever.
An impressive tale of love and death in wartime...much contemporary fiction seems inconsequential and fleeting by comparison
—— GuardianEdric handles the many characters and threads of this complex novel with skill...[his] consistent brilliance is astounding
—— Literary ReviewHis descriptions are masterful
—— Scottish Sunday HeraldA novel of a particular time and place, but one that poses timeless questions...Very satisfying...He is at his best here
—— The ScotsmanCompelling...Edric has a flawless sense of pace, and an intuitive grasp of character
—— Sunday TimesThis compelling, unsettling work brilliantly conveys the ambiguities of operating in this defeated, difficult country
—— Good Book GuideThis novel should carry a warning: its appeal will be greatest for fans either of Wagner and European history, or of politics and philosophy
—— Sunday TimesWhat Nazism owed to the British Empire fascinates Wilson, and his invention of Hitler's Americanised offspring invites us to relive the macabre history while acknowledging our own uncomfortable complicity in it... Bravely ambitious
—— IndependentWinnie and Wolf is a novel rich in philosophical reference - Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, thorny as you like - and ruminative pleasures
—— Evening StandardWilson's achievement is startling... Most contemporary English fiction looks rather etiolated and pointless by comparison
—— Hywel Williams , GuardianIt would be hard to name a more ambitious recent work of fiction... Wilson brilliantly evokes Wagner's music
—— Financial TimesWilson has done his research impeccably and he writes superbly well
—— Literary ReviewI constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language
—— Simon BrettQuite simply, the master of comic writing at work
—— Jane MooreTo pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment
—— John Julius NorwichCompulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
—— Lindsey DavisThe Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
—— Kathy LetteWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
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