Happily Ever After

by Jenny Diski

Daphne Drummond - ex-novelist and trainee baglady - decides it's high time she took a lover. This comedy of lust and noble failure begins when Daphne sets her sights on her landlord, Liam, a drunk whose only pleasures are avoiding work and fantasizing about his young wife's infidelities.

Genres: Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Jenny Diski was a British writer. Diski was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction articles, reviews and books. She was awarded the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.

Reviews

[Cherise Wolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been wanting to read Jenny Diski's work for a while, and I happened to have this novel of hers on my shelves. There is something both wonderfully old-fashioned, and yet completely modern about it. It starts with a house and ends with the house, and in between, we are with the people who live in the house. Childhood, love, sex, God, conversations with God, obsessions with a particular set of breasts, failures, mothers, daughters, a trip in a motor home from England to Spain and Africa, the novel has a lot, including brief appearances by an angel.