{"product_id":"wish-her-safe-at-home-9781590173350","title":"Wish Her Safe at Home","description":"Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWish Her Safe at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Benatar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.58w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Benatar\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1937. He has taught English at the University of Bordeaux, lived in Southern California, been a schoolteacher, an umbrella salesman, a hotel porter, and an employee of the Forestry Commission. He began writing as a child, but did not publish his first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Man on the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, until he was forty-four. Subsequent works include \u003ci\u003eWish Her Safe at Home, When I Was Otherwise, Recovery, Letters for a Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTwo on a Tiger and Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, a book for young readers. Benatar has four grown children and currently lives in West Hampstead, London, with his partner, John. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Carey\u003c\/b\u003e is Arts Emeritus Merton Professor of English at Oxford University. He has appeared as a host and commentator on numerous television and radio programs in England and is the former chief book reviewer for \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times.\u003c\/i\u003e Among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Intellectuals and the Masses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat Good Are the Arts?, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twenieth Century's Most Enjoyable Book\u003c\/i\u003es, and a biography of William Golding. He has chaired the Booker Prize committee twice and in 2005 was the chair of the first international Booker Prize committee.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stephen Benatar \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47699080446109,"sku":"9781590173350","price":37.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_70b8e75e-b5cc-449a-96fa-9d93d39414d7.jpg?v=1772697848","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/wish-her-safe-at-home-9781590173350","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}