Alison Summers believes, like a number of others, that passages in the book depicting a marital break-up are a thinly-veiled attack on her and part of an attempt to smear her following the couple's divorce nearly three years ago.
The phrase "alimony whore", repeated within the pages of Theft: A Love Story, has left her feeling "devastated" by Carey's version of events.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
When novelists get personal
Is all fair in love, war and novels? Peter Carey's wife, Alison Summers, thinks not, as she tells Anthony Barnes in The Independent.
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