The Mystery of Love

An original and witty reimagining of the relationship between Oscar and Constance Wilde.

An original and witty reimagining of the relationship between Oscar and Constance Wilde.

CONSTANCE WILDE'S MARRIAGE HAS ENDED.Making a new life in Europe, she reflects on her marriage with Oscar Wilde. Despite her family's warnings, his affairs and his spending, she knows they loved each other in their own way.In this witty and unsentimental reimagining, Andrew Meehan gives a voice to a woman often relegated to the footnotes of her husband's history, and gives new life to a marriage known for its uncertainty and torment.

Suitably unsentimental, it gives a voice to a woman often forgotten by literary history

Vorwort
An original and witty reimagining of the relationship between Oscar and Constance Wilde.

Autorentext
Andrew Meehan is a well-known script writer and formerly Head of Development at the Irish Film Board. His fiction writing has been anthologised in Town and Country: The Faber Book of New Irish Stories and Winter Pages. His first novel One Star Awake was published in 2017. He is based in Dublin and Glasgow.

Klappentext

CONSTANCE WILDE'S MARRIAGE HAS ENDED. Making a new life in Europe, she reflects on her marriage with Oscar Wilde. Despite her family's warnings, his affairs and his spending, she knows they loved each other in their own way. In this witty and unsentimental reimagining, Andrew Meehan gives a voice to a woman often relegated to the footnotes of her husband's history, and gives new life to a marriage known for its uncertainty and torment.

Zusammenfassung
An original and witty reimagining of the relationship between Oscar and Constance Wilde.