Anne Fine's Blog - Posts Tagged "black-comedy"
Taking the Devil's Advice
Seven years in America because of my husband's job just about finished me. I was horribly homesick, and writers are so often happier on their home ground. But he loved living in the States. We tried to keep the marriage together, but in the end it fell apart. (I have a theory that the wedding vows should add another proviso to 'for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health' and that should be 'at home and abroad'. That's harder than anyone admits.)
After we split up I wrote Taking the Devil's Advice. I see it now as a comedic howl of pain against the horrific difficulties of separating where there is a basic incompatibility of choices in life, but no true dislike or hate to spur the parting or make it easier. It's been called the funniest book about divorce ever written and I am proud of that. The plot's pure fiction, but the psychology is as accurate as I can make it, and I'm not surprised that it is many of my adult readers' favourite. It's certainly mine.
Taking the Devil's Advice
After we split up I wrote Taking the Devil's Advice. I see it now as a comedic howl of pain against the horrific difficulties of separating where there is a basic incompatibility of choices in life, but no true dislike or hate to spur the parting or make it easier. It's been called the funniest book about divorce ever written and I am proud of that. The plot's pure fiction, but the psychology is as accurate as I can make it, and I'm not surprised that it is many of my adult readers' favourite. It's certainly mine.
Taking the Devil's Advice
