Dimensions
130 x 197 x 17mm
Alex's mother is his first love. Throughout his isolated childhood in the south of France he protects her, worships her, hates her . . . and keeps her murderous secrets. So when she rejects him, remarries and sends Alex to school in England, he is profoundly damaged. Alex is also charming, funny, handsome and ambitious. And he's looking for a woman he can mould - a woman who will never betray him.
'Sick At Heart' is written in Alex's letters: the first to his remote, fragile mother, the second to his gentle, correct wife, and the third to his talented and exquisite 17-year-old lover. As Alex writes with the unfathomable calm of a deranged mind, the line between obsessive love and extreme hatred blurs, then disappears.
A compelling, disturbingly dramatic novel about intimate jeopardy and the dark side of human longing.
