Published in 2003 (first published 1986)
280 pages
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.
What is this book about?
“Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency. But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers another side to herself. In a sense which horrifies her, she has found herself. An outstandingly well-written novel.” –New Statesman
An addictive story of a dangerous love affair with a shocking denouement, this is a complex examination of the relations between the sexes at their most combative and collusive. It is a clever book with much to tell us about the nature of desire and what should or should not be permissible.
