Elaine Bass is 84 years old. She has two children and lives with her second husband in Norfolk. This is her first book.
The writing is brilliantly evocative of an era when the effects of
rationing were commonplace, when there was still National Service
and BBC radio plays were an evening's entertainment.
*Daily Express*
What's she's achieved is quite remarkable... no ordinary book.
*Woman's Weekly*
This is a study in saintly forbearance, but also in the innocence
of a time that knew little of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, was
shocked by sexual deviance, and when the Freudian precepts we take
for granted were not yet in place.
*Sunday Times Culture*
A Secret Madness is a poignant and brave account of a marriage
struggling to survive against the dark shadows of an illness for
which there is still no cure. Essential reading for anyone
attempting to understand and cope with OCD.
*Birmingham Post*
A superb, tragic period piece.
*The Guardian*
There are valuable lessons for many of us in her book.
*The Times (T2)*
Drawing on her vivid recollections, Bass has written a powerfully
compelling book that captures the searing loneliness of a marriage
to a man trapped within his illness.
*Independent*
This gripping, moving and obsessively readable book will ring bells
with anyone who's ever had a 'difficult marriage'.
*Fay Weldon*
It's a harrowing and thought-provoking book, and should cure any
nostalgia for the way we lived in the fifties. The reader feels the
author's lonely plight acutely. And one must admire a woman,
isolated and unsupported, who uses her own intelligence to
construct sense in the strange and frightening world into which her
marriage took her. And one who has such emotional stamina.
*Hilary Mantel*
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