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Jomier broods. He broods about the present. He broods about the past. He types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen - a digital journal. When he has nothing more to say about the present he returns to the past copying entries from old notebooks onto his computer. Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London embittered and humiliated after his wife Tilly had an affair and left him for Max an uninhibited international banker. Years later he still mourns the death of his marriage often trying to pinpoint when and why it all went wrong. With little now left to fill his time other than formulaic middle-class dinner parties Jomier seeks refuge in his journals recalling those years when he had expectations and when he was still loved by his wife. Then Jomier falls for Judith and life starts to improve as cautiously they start an affair. But old habits die hard and patterns repeat themselves. It is only when Jomier's daughter falls ill with a rare blood disorder that Jomier finally begins to reassess his feelings towards those he loves and his ability to forgive.Darkly humorous ruthlessly satirical and at times surprisingly moving "The Misogynist" is a perceptive exploration of the ways in which we can unintentionally allow disappointments from the past to affect the present and the struggle it takes to move forward.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Jomier has reached the age of retirement, his children are grown up and his wife, after having an affair, has left him. Embittered and humiliated, he lives alone in London, mourning the disintegration of his marriage as he broods about the past and the present. When he falls for Judith, things begin to improve. Yet he still cannot escape his old habits and it is only when his daughter falls ill that he begins to reassess his feelings towards those he loves and his ability to forgive. Darkly humorous, ruthlessly satirical and surprisingly moving, The Misogynist is a perceptive exploration of the ways in which we can unintentionally let past disappointments affect our present, and how difficult it can be to move forward.

  • Blackwell

    An acutely observed, funny and moving novel from award-winning writer Piers Paul Read Jomier has reached the age of retirement, his children are grown up and his wife, after having an affair, has left him. Embittered and humiliated...

  • 1408809893
  • 9781408809891
  • Piers Paul Read
  • 4 July 2011
  • Bloomsbury Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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