The Garrick Year

The Garrick Year by Margaret Drabble. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780445040182.

From the Golden PEN Award-winning A "well-written, entertaining" dark comedy of a marriage on the rocks in 1960s London (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times). Emma and David Evans seem to have a perfect life. Hes a handsome and successful Welsh actor; shes a sometimes model, soon-to-be television news anchor, and full-time mother. But all is not well under the surface. Shes impatient and choked by domesticity; hes narcissistic and unfaithful. Between the two of them is a privately combative marriage that has fed their want of drama.Then David relocates the family from their London home to provincial Hereford, where hes to star in two plays during the citys festival season. Its here, far removed from the highbrow stimulation of the city, that Emmas resentment of David--his long hours, his expectations, his ego--finally boils over. Bored and lonely, she falls into the arms of the theaters director, an indiscretion that triggers a series of surprises neither Emma nor David could have foreseen.Narrated by a complicated, fascinating, and fiercely intelligent woman at the end of her rope, The Garrick Year is "a witty, beautiful novel . . . written with extraordinary art" (The New York Times)."[A] romantic novel about actors and the theatre and marriage and sex and babies . . . deliciously bitter . . . so alive." --The New Yorker"Unsparing . . . a very knowing, diverting entertainment." --Kirkus Reviews