Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband’s first novel. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings. And as we read with her, so are we. Tony&Susan is a dazzling achievement: simultaneously a riveting portrayal of the experience of reading and a page-turning thriller, written in startlingly arresting prose. It is also a novel about fear and regret, revenge and aging, marriage and creativity. It is simply unique.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved Tony and Susan and became intensely involved in it. Parts of it shocked me and I am not easily shocked. It is easy to say that something one has read is unforgettable, but this novel I know I never shall forget.’ — Ruth Rendell
`A f***king masterpiece. I wish that Wright was still alive so that I could tell him so… It’s going to become a living, breathing, knock-out classic. Astonishing.’ –M J Hyland
‘Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved Tony and Susan and became intensely involved in it. Parts of it shocked me and I am not easily shocked. It is easy to say that something one has read is unforgettable, but this novel I know I never shall forget.’ –Ruth Rendell
`In an era when writers scarcely get a first chance to make their mark, much less a second, the reissue of Austin Wright’s superb novel is a real treat… A masterful example of narrative intensity and artistic control.’ –Sunday Times
About the Author
Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.