A QUIET DRINK (Arrow £5.99)
My third novel launches into the unknown – into
worlds I knew nothing about, worlds I made up. In other words,
I left my own life behind. I also wrote through the eyes of
a man, as well as a woman, and constructed a complex series
of plots that only converged at the end.
Claudia has always been independent – own flat, absorbing
job, a husband so devoted he is almost a housewife. Until
she finds herself an abruptly and uneasily liberated woman.
Steve Mullan deals in faces – and is perhaps too well
fitted for his job as a cosmetics rep. His wife June is the
perfect model for his firm’s products. Yet after a year
of marriage, life is proving rather less than perfect. It
is a sly stroke of chance which brings Claudia and Steve together.
Yet neither could know how far the consequences of a quiet
drink would reach…
“I immensely enjoyed A Quiet Drink. It is an unassuming
novel that starts modestly and ends up as social comedy of
the highest order. Ms Moggach is funny, shrewd and has an
ear for dialogue that is lethally accurate.”
(Daily Telegraph)
“A highly intelligent, fluent comedy about the consumer
society, with…a lot of good jokes…wonderfully
readable.”
(Sunday Times)
“Detailed, thoughtful, and emotionally-stripping, illustrating
once again that you don’t really know your partner just
because you married him or her…a skilful story by a
very readable author.”
(Daily Mail)
224 pages (6 June, 1991)
Publisher: Arrow; ISBN: 0749309245
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