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Wish Her Safe At Home
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam’s oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.
When I Was Otherwise
Two women looking back over fifty years: one full of regret, the other not admitting to mistakes and continuing to be fiercely positive. Which approach, in the end, is likely to prove more satisfying—both for Daisy herself and for those who live around her?
The Man on the Bridge
A love story between men—without being, basically, a novel about gay issues; more about appreciating what you have while you have it, and ultimately learning what matters to you in life.
On Chasing Brad Through Purgatory
Two men are involved in a car crash: Brad dies, and Danny—who can’t stand the thought of living without him—kills himself, convinced that with so little time having elapsed between their deaths, he’ll be able to catch up to Brad on his way to Judgment. The novel becomes a modern Pilgrim’s Progress, detailing the tests inseparable from a journey through purgatory.
Before Getting Rid of Gil & Josh and About a Boat Trip, a Hold Up, a Strip Show and You
Before Getting Rid of Gil and Josh is both a love story and a comedy-thriller, rather than any stark account of homicide. It is set in 1954, before it was legal for two men sexually to love one another and follows the attempt of an MP’s twin to blackmail him. The MP and his partner decide they have to scare off this sibling but when their tactics unexpectedly result in death, they have to resort to desperate measures to avoid suspicion falling in the right place. About a Boat Trip, a Hold Up, a Strip Show and You can be seen as a latter-day Brief Encounter, occurring some forty years later, in 1986. It concerns Stella McCabe, an attractive middle-aged woman who is thinking of leaving her h...
Letters for a Spy
A young German spy is sent to investigate the authenticity of something which may—or may not—be a stratagem perpetrated by the British.
New World in the Morning
A man who married young, and so never had the chance to sow his wild oats, suddenly breaks out when in his mid-thirties—and becomes convinced he has stumbled on the secret of happiness.
Father of the Man
The story of a father and son—and is it true, as Wordsworth claimed, that “the child is father of the man” or can one’s character actually change as one grows older?
Such Men Are Dangerous
A vicar is disbelieving when two teenagers in his parish claim to have been given a message by the archangel Gabriel, but gradually changes his mind and decides he must do something about it.
Recovery and The Return of Ethan Hart
Both novellas completely separate but about putting right the mess two men have made out of their lives.
