Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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It’s the story of Stephen Fleming, a man who seemingly has everything – wealth, a beautiful wife (Ingrid), two children (Martyn and Sally), and a prestigious political career in Parliament. There was however one person, who was hypnotized by the spectacle of that aloof elegance when it struck him with the force majeure equal to the moment of his re/birth. Damage is a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart about a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship.

This spare, dreamlike first novel comes festooned with blurbs from the likes of Ruth Rendell and Iris Murdoch, and no wonder, for it's an unforgettable tale of sexual obsession and its calamitous consequences. A second screen adaptation has been released in April 2023 as a four-part limited series for Netflix, under the title Obsession. Portrait of an obsession … Juliette Bincohe and Jeremy Irons in Damage, directed by Louis Malle (1992). We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved, or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock or recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place. Dazed and utterly confused, he tumbles backwards, hits the low banister and falls down the stairwell.The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.

In his seventh outing, Burke, Vachss's flinty ex-con and relentless crusader for abused kids last featured in Sacrifice , is still reeling after having killed a kid in a previous case gone sour.A shocking novel about passion and betrayal, about a British politician who, in the prime of life and seems to have everything causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship. This treasure trove of letters, stories, essays, poems, selections from diaries and journals, and excerpts from novels covers WW II from seemingly every conceivable angle. Some find it in the place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. One can visualise it as if it were a long fox-tail she wore elegantly and defiantly through all her adult life. Be it awakening from deep sleep rather than shallow existence, from not feeling into being powerfully overwhelmed by emotions, from building a false self, into being released from the pretenses, from longing for wealth and success into being fused with the significant Other.

Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. She got frightened by its inevitable trajectory and left it untouched for many months having considered it far too dangerous to continue. Force Majeure is a natural phenomenon known for its sudden unpredictable devastating and irreversible impact upon the lives of all within its vicinity. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament.The MP enjoys a brief period of sexual bliss, meeting Anna in various European cities and having sex with her in unlikely places. The unnamed narrator seems to say to us I cannot repent for to do so would be to deny the very thing which brought me into existence. You have to accept either as a possibility to become completely absorbed in Damage by Josephine Hart.

In this diverting tale of the 21st century, poet and novelist ( Summer People ) Piercy explores a world where information has become a commodity more precious than gold. Josephine Hart might have been frightened by this force, this much she admitted in her 2011 introduction to the book, which was finished some 20 years earlier in 1990. A production of The Vortex, of which I was the producer, was still running in the West End and I was planning a another, of Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince.And while I did have trouble accepting that an intelligent man, who was in the public spotlight, would risk all that he had for a roll in the hay with this particular girl (any other girl, yes maybe), the story was engrossing. This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences. Readers may find the prose overly mannered, however, and the novel more successful as an emotional tour de force than as a credible study of human nature.