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The Mistress's Revenge [Kindle Edition]

Tamar Cohen (Author)

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This book is Fatal Attraction with a twist and will grip you from beginning to end. (Prima )

Gasp in recognition at this cracking tale, narrated by a woman scorned...Sister, we've all been there... (Grazia )

If you thought Fatal Attraction was the last word on the fury of a woman scorned, think again...acutely observed, wickedly funny and deftly plotted, with a satisfyingly smart twist at the end. (Mail on Sunday )

Will keep you guessing about its characters fates until the very end. (Candis Magazine )

Dark, often funny but sometimes unnerving. (Woman & Home )

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"A cracking debut. . . .very "Fatal Attraction" with a clever twist at the end. Addictive stuff."

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 513 KB
Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Transworld Digital (23 Jun 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0552777544
ISBN-13: 978-0552777544
ASIN: B0050OM3EC
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Clarissa Dalloway of Our Time 14 July 2012

By Mr. D. James

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Tamar Cohen: The Mistress's Revenge

Tamar Cohen's debut novel is written in the form of a diary, addressed by Sally Ipsis to her former lover Clive Gooding, a wealthy television journalist and compulsive womaniser. At the start of her memoir Sally's covert relationship has been going on for five years and this monologue is her attempt to come to terms with her loss of the man who had promised her eternal love, marriage, an escape from her unexciting partner, Daniel, and a new start in life. But when Clive finds he cannot leave his wife Susan and his two children for Sally, she falls into severe depression, having resource to therapy and a variety of drugs.

So far, so trite, the reader may feel. Is this another `woman's novel', pure pulp fiction, as the narrator spills out her agonies like a soap opera? Not exactly, for this everyday story of punctured romance is told so compulsively that one becomes intrigued by Sally's rich array of coping strategies, as she visits first her young blonde GP who lends her a sympathetic ear, puts her head on one side and scrunches up her lips, repeating `Poor you' to the blubbering patient; then Helen Bunion her stern therapist who recommends deep breathing and various commonsense strategies such as knowing who you really are. Clive is an illness from which Sally must cure herself; but this she is unable to do, having constant recourse to imaginary (and ultimately face-to-face) confrontations with the ex-lover. Sally sinks into drug dependency and subterfuges such as email and Facebook snooping, but mostly a reliance on the friendship of Susan, Clive's unsuspecting wife whom she befriends in an attempt to spy on Clive and track down every detail of his life.... As Sally becomes increasingly drug-dependent, she finds herself isolated from friends, husband and her two children, Tilly and Jamie.

Some Amazon reviewers have been put off by the feckless heroine with nothing else in her life but dreams of the past and hopes of reunion with the selfish and heartless Clive, who is also undergoing therapy, but via BUPA. These two empty characters `deserve each other' is one dismissal; they are equally selfish and despicable. This may be true, but they are each presented in such a lively and believable way that their fencing becomes a fascinating duel. What will they do next? Will Sally force her way back into Clive's life? How long will it be before partner Daniel confronts Sally, or wife Susan finally twigs what's been going on? Will therapist Helen Bunion's counsel prevail and Sally come to her senses? Above all, how will the affair affect the children of each party?

Sally Ipsis is the archetypal hopeless woman, one who can't look after her children, who loses her job, her husband and ultimately her family, one who neglects herself and takes refuge in sleeping pills and isolation in her bedroom. She is so obsessed with the notion of regaining Clive that she becomes a compulsive liar, forgets to pay bills, answer letters, to attend parents' meetings and even her son's birthday. She is `too busy' tracing what she imagines to be the day-to-day life of Clive. Yet as we get to know her, she becomes strangely likeable: intelligent, witty and in her own way incredibly resourceful. When her therapist finally loses patience, Sally deflects the threatened termination of treatment with typical mockery of professional jargon: `It's reached the point where I feel I must urge you strongly to seek further help,' she told me. `You are stretching the boundaries of my remit.' Isn't that classic? Stretching the boundaries of her remit. I even wrote it down, I liked it so much....You know, I rather think that's what you might have done, Clive - stretched the boundaries of my remit. Maybe all that stretching is what keeps hurting so much.'

Although the book is an easy read, it's far from being a lightweight Sex `n' Shopping novel and it's certainly a mile away from Chiclit or the typical Romantic Novel. In fact, with pardonable exaggeration, I see Sally Ipsis as the Clarissa Dalloway of our time. Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars I cant wait for the sequel.. 23 Jun 2011

By mrs price wales

Format:Hardcover

I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put down once Id started it, reading it way too late on a school night. Its a really well written account of a womans journey into self destruction, the madness of a woman scorned. Darkly humourous,disturbing with a fabulous twist at the end. This is a fantastic novel and I hope the book company will be publishing many more by this talented new writer, Tamar Cohen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Original and gripping 1 Jan 2012

By Beatrix

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Once I got stuck into 'The Mistresses Revenge' I couldn't put it down. The storyline - a middle-aged woman's obsession with the married lover who has dumped her - is nothing new but the style of the book, written as the journal of the main character Sally Islip, is original and gripping. Watching Sally descend into madness and neglect her own family as she becomes increasingly fixated with that of her selfish ex-lover, Clive, is both frustrating and disturbingly believeable. If this debut novel is at times dark and distressing it's also funny and extremely well-observed - I almost recognised some of the characters! And the ending - both unexpected and satisfying - is a real cracker. Tamar Cohen is a talented and perceptive writer - I look forward to her next offering.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerising read 11 Aug 2012

By Gloucestershire Girl

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Initially I thought this novel was going to be a tad "Mills & Boonish" - how wrong I was! I nearly drove my poor husband mad chuckling over the book whilst reading in bed. it is extremely well written with a clever balance between dark humour and sharp observation. An undercurrent of unease starts to build and you just know something horrid is going to happen but the ending was totally different to my wild imaginings. A real twist at the very end.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars couldnt put it down 30 July 2012

By melly

Format:Paperback

I found this book totally engrossing and I couldnt put it down. Although the main character Sally was a selfish person I found myself rooting for her. It was really well written and got me hooked from the start and had a clever twist. This would make an excellent holiday beach read easy to pick up and get lost in.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Mistress's Revenge 9 Aug 2012

By gill eastwood

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I just could not put this book down. I was reading until 2 am. I could feel myself getting mad for the mistress, her children and her partner. To watch a family fall apart through love/lust was pitiful. Good ending, but no-one happy really.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Revenge? Really? 26 Jan 2012

By Ms. Cl College

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While reading this book, I always found myself enjoying it.

The prose is poignant, dark and actually very funny. I'm 19 years old but somehow I managed to step into the protagonist Sally's view and see the world through her eyes. She's s middle aged woman who has been having a 5 year affair with cool calm and collected married Clive. Clive declares his love and true passion for Sally but suddenly decides on a fateful friday that thing's at home are worth working at.

He leaves Sally in free fall, in a job she can't be bothered with, a husband she no longer cares about and children who will never understand. She slowly declines into the darkest depths of depression. Eventually the only reason Sally even gets dressed in the morning's are to stalk Clive's house or meet his wife on tea and lunch dates.

Everyone around Sally is oblivious as to why she has suddenly lost it, but she takes comfort in any tiny bits of information she can get out of Clives family on his life. However he doesn't feel comfortable with her spending time with his wife and resorts to threatening her to stay away.

There's a lot of depressing stuff in this book because even as the reader, you just want Sally to... well help herself. Suddenly you're transported 18 months and Sally is over Clive and he's paying for soliciting gbh.

The ending was too quick after all the depressing stuff in the middle and I found myself thinking afterwards 'well what was the revenge exactly?'.

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