Affliction - Softcover

‘Meet the shrink from hell – alternately laughing and gasping, the reader follows Annette out of the pit and into the daylight...’
Miami Herald

‘Weldon scythes her way like a flymo...’
Times Educational Supplement

‘Affliction works like a slow-burning fuse...’
Independent on Sunday

‘It has crackling dialogue, tremendous pace and a monstrous husband called Spicer...’
Daily Telegraph

When a marriage meets a therapist...

Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes likened to Meryl Streep. He with a son (Jason, eleven) from a previous marriage, she with a daughter (Susan, thirteen) from a ditto. He and she, after ten years, expecting their own baby. But on this, the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye as he leaves for the office.