![]() ![]() The outcome, as precisely charted by Miss Fremlin, is practically strangulating. The parasite person tells of Martin Lockwood, a man stuck between a wife and a mistress and frustrated by his faltering doctoral thesis on depression. While The Hours Before Dawn wasnt her first book (that would be War Factory, a. The New Yorker characterized the novel as married hell in a London suburb. After reading The Trouble Makers, I did a little more research on Fremlin. Women will identify and commiserate, noted Kirkus Reviews. In this terrifying mystery classic, Edgar Award-winning novelist Celia Fremlin blends the desperation of 1960s domesticity with gripping suspense. ![]() All of the housewives on the block complain about their domineering husbands, their noisy children, and their dreary chores. But when Mary spies a man in a raincoat, lurking about the neighborhood, she develops a panicky obsession with the stranger that her friends can't soothe - and the frustrations of everyday life suddenly take a sinister turn. The Trouble-Makers (1963) was Celia Fremlins fourth novel and - as Chris Simmons contends in his new preface to this Faber Finds edition - has a case to be considered among her very best. Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. The women's only consolation lies in getting together to vent their frustrations and share the latest gossip. ![]() Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. ![]()
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