Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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The narrator is a British television interviewer who has recently lost his wife of ten years, but after a year is trying to move forward in his life with work and a new relationship while also navigating his relationships with his deceased wife, Laura, and her living parents. Laura's presence leaves him for only short periods of time, giving him brief periods of respite in which he can be present to this life. During the course of the book, Andrew is able to have longer periods of time in which he can leave Laura (yes, the question of who is leaving whom is one of the ideas explored) and remain in the land of the living. Hart's premise is that each of us dies two deaths -- one physical and one when we slip into oblivion, when we are forgotten. Andrew's character allows us to see the story from the living side, but Hart uses another pivotal character, a playwright who Andrew is to interview on his television series, who has explored and is advancing this idea of oblivion in her new play, to give us the story from the dead. They involve a degree of mild violence and of domination (there are references to slavedom, to being tied, and blindfolded, of Anna giving herself over to his will, of being physically ‘arranged’). These scenes leave us with a sense of the brutality of Fleming’s sexual desire, and of Anna’s desire to submit to it.

Love Makes You Crazy: Stephen's love for Anna makes him act irrationally. For example, during a business trip, he travels at night from Brussels to Paris just to see his lover. In the end, he loses his job and his family because of his love. This is the story of a man, whom appears to have the dream life.. ..wealth, intelligence, power, successful marriage, prestige. So why does he spend countless hours wondering....Why he is so unhappy? How someone that appears to have it all, can feel so empty? When did he lose control of his life? And most i mportantly, why does he feel dead inside? ..... Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2009-12-11 18:57:31 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA104611 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor there would be time for the pain and pleasure lust lends to love. Time for body lines and angles that provoke the astounded primitive to leap delighted from the civilised skin…There would be time for words obscene and dangerous. There would be time for flowers to put out the eyes and for silken softness to close the ears.’The Flemings visit Edward Lloyd, Ingrid's father and Stephen's political mentor, to celebrate her birthday. Martyn announces that Anna has accepted his proposal of marriage, which visibly disturbs Stephen. That night, Sally observes him leaving Anna's room. An anxious Stephen lies about it, telling Sally he was talking to Anna about the marriage because Ingrid was upset. Later, the Flemings have lunch with Anna's mother, Elizabeth, who disparages the marriage, saying that Martyn doesn't seem like Anna's 'usual type' but noting how closely he resembles Anna's dead brother. Elizabeth notices the strained behavior between Anna and Stephen. She deduces the affair and warns Stephen to end it. This was such an odd and bizarre book. I was very disappointed with this one, but that might be my fault because I went into it thinking it was a completely different kind of book than what it really is.

The effect is powerful: here is naked obsession, sulfurous, total, scarcely possible to live with.” Everything changes when he meets Anna Barton, his son’s girlfriend. Although his wife is suspicious of the girl, who is eight year older than her beloved 25 year old son, the narrator feels an instant attraction to her the moment he meets her. An attraction that appears to be mutual since he and Anna start a passionate affair shortly after meeting. Driven to Suicide: When Anna was 15, her brother committed suicide when he discovered she was in a relationship with Peter. Mensah cited South Korean series Squid Game as an example, and said the UK team is attempting to emulate that local-global balance. On the surface, Damage is about a middle-aged man who has an affair with a younger woman. Pretty standard dramatic fare, right? But wait--there's more. The younger woman in question happens to be his son's fiancée, and the man in question happens to be a member of Parliament.

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After Damage, which told the story of a politician's obsession with his son's girlfriend, she went on to write another five novels: Sin (1992), Oblivion (1995), The Stillest Day (1998), The Reconstructionist (2001) and The Truth About Love (2009). Damage and Sin are to be reissued as Virago Modern Classics later this year, and Josephine felt that was a thrilling tribute. She loved the cover we at Virago proposed for Damage – a red rose bristling with thorns – and immediately I received a large bouquet of red roses from her, with a line from Marianne Moore: "Your thorns are the best part of you."

We are left in no doubt that destruction is inevitable, that Fleming is at the precipice. There are no mitigating circumstances, and we know that there will be no happy ending, or forgiveness. What we see is a chillingly honest portrayal of sexual obsession, and our potential for destruction: lives damaged, or soon to be so. After Anna calls his office, Stephen goes to her flat, where they have sex. The following day, Martyn is promoted and Ingrid arranges a celebratory dinner. There, Ingrid seems suspicious and interrogates Anna about her childhood. Anna says her brother, a year older, committed suicide over "love" when he was 16. After dinner, Martyn drives Anna home and Stephen follows them. Once Martyn leaves, Stephen enters and tells Anna how much he "wanted to touch her during dinner", leading to them having sex again. Anna describes her brother's death, after he had expressed incestuous desire, saying "he wanted me all to himself and not to grow up." She says that damaged people are dangerous, and that she hates possessiveness. Netflix UK executives Anne Mensah, Fiona Lamptey and Kate Townsend discussed the studio’s upcoming slate in London on Thursday (March 17), as the company launched new erotic thriller series Damage. Fleming tells the reader: ‘ We were made for other things. For needs that had to be answered day or night – sudden longings – a strange language of the body.’Downer Ending: Martyn dies. Stephen is devastated and he subsequently loses his wife, his job, his reputation, and even his lover who dumps him immediately. Meet the In-Laws: Martyn brings Anna to his parents' house to introduce her to them. The meeting is quite awkward because Martyn's mother Ingrid takes an immediate dislike to Anna (but she does not show it openly). Moreover, Stephen and Anna have already (but they do not tell the others about it) met and are attracted to each other. Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a New York Times bestselling masterpiece of the romantic suspense genre.