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Perriam's scintillating saga on
modern woman and the
war between the sexes

Driven apart by the sensational
publication of Hester Winterton's
highly intimate diaries, her
son Lyn and his wife Jennifer
embark on separate voyages
of discovery.While Jennifer
is swept reluctantly
- as the second Mrs Winterton -
into a glamorous round of publishing
parties and television interviews, Lyn
is impelled to face past secrets
and to probe his relationships with
those forbidden arousing creatures
known as women . . .



Born of Woman is full of contrast,
setting the glittering sham of the
media world against the brutal
splendours of nature; exploding the settled
tie of marriage with the squalls
of lesbian love, and juxtaposing casual,
even violent, sex with the sacred
power to create life.

A book is born, a child is born.
One brings riches and retribution, the
other becomes a saviour: the strange symbolic
love-child who arrives on Christmas Day
- after narrowly escaping being
born in Harrods restaurant!

Born of Woman offers ingenious variations
on Perriam's perennial theme of sexual
survival, and shows the unusual
range of her fictional repertoire.
She has a considerable command
of her craft, and a shrewd sense
of those aspects of contemporary
life which are worth recording.
Times Literary Supplement

Uninhibited exuberance . . . masking
a deeply serious, even spiritual theme.
Among the lip-smacking descriptions
of sexual encounters, the tensions and
bonds between parents and children
are illustrated with considerable subtlety.
Perriam writes with gusto and intelligence,
and the story roars along to its
unexpectedly touching end.
British Book News

Richly entertaining. Perriam untangles
this modern family muddle with
unflagging interest and a newly
sensitive but still flamboyant voice.
Company

"Born of Woman is set partly in Northumberland, and Hester's isolated farmhouse becomes almost another character in the novel. To get to know the area (and acquire a working knowledge of forestry and sheep-farming), I went to stay in the Northumbrian wilds where, despite the sparse population, I must have met more people in a fortnight than in the ten years I'd lived in commuter Surrey!"