Loving Roger

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A brilliantly concise investigation of how the trials of a relationship can spill over into violence. Tight and disturbing, Loving Roger begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she loves... This brief novel is a mordantly illuminating essay on the way love contains the seeds of vindictiveness and hatred'' Observer.

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With his chillingly elegant prose and frighteningly deadpan narrative, Tim Parks has written, not a whodunnit, but a brilliant whydunnit. * Today *

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Winner of Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham Awards, Tim Parks has been described as 'among his generation's most gifted writers', 'a writer to watch' and 'the best British author today'.