Confessions with Keith by Pauline Holdstock Paperback Book 9781771964975

Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeAn outrageously comic novel documents a middleaged writer and mothers grappling with midlife crisisher husbands and her ownPreoccupied with her fledgling literary career intent on the allconsuming consolations of philosophy and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesnt notice that heramp160house and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest Sheamp160can barely find time for her writing career and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take offamp160Our heroineamp8217s only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keiths hairdressing salon but when her husband leaves the country unannounced she decides to do likewiseamp8212in the opposite direction and with their children Drawn from the pages of Vitaamp8217s journal this outrageously comic novel documents Vitas passage through a midlife crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves