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Damage

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION
  • Author
    • Josephine Hart
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Now filmed as Obsession on Netflix - starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy



The New York Times bestselling masterpiece - a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences

'Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.'

Damage is the gripping story of a man's desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming and ultimately catastrophic relationship with his son's fiancée.

'A taut, sinister tale of erotic obsession' Vanity Fair

'The effect is powerful: here is naked obsession, sulfurous, total, scarcely possible to live with' Financial Times

'The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination. A tour de force' New York Times

'Unputdownable is here, for once, not hyperbolic' Ruth Rendell

'Damage is a masterpiece' Washington Post

'Passionate, elegant, ruthless' Iris Murdoch

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  • Published: Dec 01 2011
  • Pages: 256
  • 138 x 200mm
  • ISBN: 9781844087181
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Press Reviews

  • Ruth Rendell
    A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment and quite startling psychological insight... 'Un-put-downable' is here, for once, not hyperbolic
  • Washington Post
    Damage is a masterpiece

  • Iris Murdoch

    A passionate, elegant, ruthless story
  • Vanity Fair
    A taut, sinister tale of erotic obsession
  • New York Times
    The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination. A tour de force
  • Financial Times
    The effect is powerful: here is naked obsession, sulfurous, total, scarcely possible to live with
  • Los Angeles Times
    To read this tale of mutual obsession is like being abducted. Josephine Hart has managed to create a portrait of psychological and erotic obsession that is so compelling as, for a brief moment, to suck all the oxygen out of the air
  • Guardian
    Josephine Hart's debut novel, Damage, was an instant success. She wrote this, a new introduction to the tale of erotic obsession, just before her death
  • Kirkus
    This spare, dreamlike first novel comes festooned with blurbs from the likes of Ruth Rendell and Iris Murdoch, and no wonder, for it's an unforgettable tale of sexual obsession and its calamitous consequences... Elliptical, haunting, and altogether extraordinary
  • Library Journal
    Next to the often-contrived twists and revelations of today's psychological suspense, Hart's spare tale of all-consuming obsession is refreshingly straightforward
  • Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying
    The violent dreamscape of Damage stayed with me long after I closed the book. Did I dream it? Did I live it? My very uncertainty tells me I have read something rare