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Wendy Perriam

Wendy Perriam is a British novelist, whose work often reflects her strict convent background, against which she rebelled sharply, and her stories contain much explicit sexual content. She has also appeared frequently on radio and TV.

Career

Wendy Perriam is a British novelist and graduate of St Anne's College, Oxford, who started writing at the age of five and wrote her first novel at eleven. Perriam then went silent as she struggled through a long period of depression and physical illness, having been expelled from her Catholic school for heresy and told she was in Satan's power. Many of her early novels explore the perils and, conversely, the great attractions of Catholicism. Perriam's work is also renowned for its explicit sexual content.

In 2002, after being nominated for both two preceding prizes, she won Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for Tread softly.[1][2]

Perriam has appeared frequently on television and radio, and was once a regular contributor to the radio series Stop the Week and Fourth Column. She has also written for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and appeared at many leading literary festivals. Her work has been critically acclaimed for its psychological insight and for its power to disturb as well as divert. She was described by the Sunday Telegraph as "one of the most underrated writers in the country",[3] and the Financial Times stated "her gift for humour has been likened to that of Kingsley Amis".[4]

Her 16th novel, Broken Places, published in paperback in 2012, was shortlisted for 2011 'Mind Book of the Year' award.[5] In January 2013, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her "outstanding contribution to literature and reading pleasure", by Kingston University, which houses her archive.[6]

Personal life

Perriam has been twice married and has two stepchildren. Her own daughter - and only child, after two miscarriages - died of cancer in 2008. Perriam lives in London.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Absinthe for Elevenses (1980)[7][8]
  • Cuckoo (1981)
  • After Purple (1982)
  • Born of Woman (1983)
  • The Stillness the Dancing (1985)
  • Sin City (1987)
  • Devils, for a Change (1989)[9][10]
  • Fifty-Minute Hour (1990)
  • Bird Inside (1992)[11]
  • Michael, Michael (1993)
  • Breaking and Entering (1994)
  • Coupling (1996)
  • Second Skin (1999)[12][13]
  • Lying (2001)[14]
  • Tread Softly (2002)
  • Broken Places (2010)[15][16]
  • An Enormous Yes (2013)
  • The Tender Murderer (2017)[17]
  • Sing for Life (2019)[18]

Short Story Collections

  • Dreams, Demons and Desire (2001)
  • Virgin in the Gym (2004)[3]
  • Laughter Class (2006)
  • The Biggest Female in the World (2007)
  • Little Marvel (2008)[19]
  • The Queen's Margarine (2009)
  • 'I'm on the train!' (2012)
  • Bad Mothers Brilliant Lovers (2015)

References

  1. ^ "Third time 'lucky' for bad sex winner". BBC News. 2 December 2002. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  2. ^ Pauli, Michelle (4 December 2002). "Pin-striped tumble wins Bad Sex prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b Robson, David (28 March 2004). "Will you laugh or cry? David Robson enjoys these stories from the underrated Wendy Perriam". Sunday Telegraph.
  4. ^ Boyt, Susie (11 August 2007). "The potent art of worrying Wendy Perriam has much on her mind". Financial Times.
  5. ^ Flood, Alison (12 September 2011). "Bobby Baker diary wins Mind Book of the Year". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "From school expulsion to literary star: honour for author Wendy Perriam". Kingston University. 31 January 2013.
  7. ^ Bold, Alan (5 February 1990). "Phantoms, fantasies and startling way with honesty". The Herald (Glasgow).
  8. ^ Renshaw, Rosalind (20 February 1980). "Wendy Perriam: First time novelist". Reading Evening Post. p. 5. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  9. ^ Donnelly, Gabrielle (21 June 1990). "BOOK REVIEW : From the Convent to the Unconventional : DEVILS, FOR A CHANGE". Los Angeles Times.
  10. ^ Kempf, Andrea Caron (1990). "Devils, for a Change. (Book)". Library Journal. 115 (6): 138. ISSN 0363-0277.
  11. ^ Massie, Allan (14 March 1992). "Flying in the face of faith". The Scotsman. p. 30. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  12. ^ "Books: Angst in suburbia Second Skin by Wendy Perriam". Birmingham Post. 6 February 1999.
  13. ^ Andrews, David (10 February 1999). "A tale of rags to riches". Daily Express. p. 76. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  14. ^ "LYING (BOOK REVIEW)". Publishers Weekly. 247 (42). 2000.
  15. ^ Stanford, Peter (17 September 2010). "Broken Places, By Wendy Perriam". The Independent. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  16. ^ Saunders, Kate (28 August 2010). "Reviews: David Grossman, Daniel Kehlmann and Wendy Perriam". The Times.
  17. ^ Plowright, Piers (9 March 2018). "The shock of the new". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  18. ^ Plowright, Piers (5 December 2019). "Choir in the blood". Camden New Journal.
  19. ^ Guiness, Molly (26 July 2008). "Hope born of fantasy". The Spectator.
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