The Other Occupant

- Authors
- Benson, Peter
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Tags
- sports car , lyme regis , illness , challenge , understated , friendship , leninist , dorset , cancer , eccentric
- ISBN
- 9781846881930
- Date
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.62 MB
- Lang
- en
A subtly lyrical novel, written with Peter Benson’s trademark wit and understatement, *The Other Occupant* explores the moving evolution of an unlikely relationship, against a beautiful countryside backdrop. Greg is thirty-three, without a job or a place to live. Hiding from painful memories, he only half-exists, his lethargy a protection against the world. Alice, his Leninist aunt, disturbed by his apathy, sends him to Dorset to help out a friend. Living in the countryside, working for the wildly eccentric, sports-car-owning Marjorie, he begins to face his past. As their friendship grows Greg is faced with an unexpected challenge that threatens to destroy his new-found happiness.