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You can read more book reviews or buy Tony and Susan by Austin Wright at .uk Amazon currently charges £2.99 for standard delivery for orders under £20, over which delivery is free. Tony and Susan by Austin Wright is in the Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010. I'm not going to suggest any further reading because there is, quite simply, nothing with which to compare it. I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag. When I turned the final page I was simply stunned and since then I've been unable to get Tony, or Susan, out of my mind. We live in Susan's head as Tony's story brings to the surface her thoughts on how she has lead her life. Susan's story – the story of a marriage, fears for the future and of ageing – is elegant, delicately turned and insightful.īut, it's when you put the two stories together and read them side by side that you understand what a masterpiece this is. At one point I was terrified and had to put the book down and return to it later. It's dark, it's about revenge in its darkest form and it's violent. You'll read it all and if that was all there was to the book I would be telling you that you should read it. Edward's manuscript – Nocturnal Animals is a superb story in itself. Why, I don't know because it is, quite simply, a masterpiece and I've never read anything quite like it. This book was first published in 1993 and it just about sank without trace. Her life will never be the same again either.

Susan is drawn into Tony's story and in doing so is forced to confront her own fears. Their ordinary, civilised lives are violently disrupted and will never be the same again. Tony Hastings, a professor of maths was driving to his summer house in Maine with his wife and daughter. She was, he said, always his best critic and he would like her opinion.Īrnold is away at a medical conference when Susan begins reading the manuscript. Many years – and three children – later Susan receives a manuscript from Edward. The marriage wasn't entirely successful Edward gave up law to become a writer, relying on Susan's teaching income to support them, but whilst he spent a month away in a remote cabin 'to find himself' Susan found Arnold instead.

Years later they met at university when Edward was studying law and after a short relationship they married. Susan didn't particularly want him there but accepted that it was the right thing to do. Highly recommendedĮdward Sheffield hadn't exactly been Susan's childhood sweetheart, but after a family tragedy left him homeless he came to live with Susan and her parents for a year so that he could finish school. Originally published in 1993 it should now get the recognition it deserves. Summary: A book within a book and both are masterful.