Damage : A Novel
Description
**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy**
This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences.
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.
Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a New York Times bestselling masterpiece of the romantic suspense genre.
Praise for Damage : A Novel
“Damage is a masterpiece.”
— The Washington Post
“A taut, sinister tale of erotic obsession.”
— Vanity Fair
“The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination. A tour de force.”
— The New York Times
“The effect is powerful: here is naked obsession, sulfurous, total, scarcely possible to live with.”
— Financial Times
"Next to the often-contrived twists and revelations of today’s psychological suspense, Hart’s spare tale of all-consuming obsession is refreshingly straightforward."
— Library Journal
“A passionate, elegant, ruthless story.”
— Iris Murdoch, author of The Bell, Under the Net, and The Black Prince
“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.”
— Los Angeles Times
“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.”
— Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying
"A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment and quite startling psychological insight. 'Un-put-downable' is here, for once, not hyperbolic."
— Ruth Rendell