Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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On a superficial level this might be about a moment of falling in love, but it is a lot deeper than that. Luis Malle made a stunningly successful film with Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Iron in the key roles.

This book cannot be considered on a morality spectrum about the failings of the 20th century London ruling elite. Josephine Hart (1942-2011) was the bestselling author of Damage, Sin, Oblivion and The Reconstructionist. There are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. In his latest assault on sexual abusers of children, super-tough Manhattan maverick PI Burke works both sides of the law to save Luke, an eight-year-old suspect in a series of baby murders. Damage is a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart about a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship.

And while I did have trouble accepting that an intelligent man, who was in the public spotlight, would risk all that he had for a roll in the hay with this particular girl (any other girl, yes maybe), the story was engrossing. The MP runs down the stairs completely naked, finding Martyn dead, sprawled out on the ground floor.

One can visualise it as if it were a long fox-tail she wore elegantly and defiantly through all her adult life. A woman I had known only days, to whom I had spoken only a few sentences, watched me betray my wife and my son. Close to her own death the author linked the pain and danger experienced by the protagonists with her own childhood double loss, details of which she did not reveal. There was however one person, who was hypnotized by the spectacle of that aloof elegance when it struck him with the force majeure equal to the moment of his re/birth.

Always an obsessive reader, I had read six books a week during a particular four years in a small town in Ireland after a double family tragedy, and continued this voracious consumption of novels after I left Ireland. For the first time in an outwardly lucky life, he feels passion and joy, emotions that a longtime ``happy'' marriage and fatherhood have never generated. A shocking novel about passion and betrayal, about a British politician who, in the prime of life and seems to have everything causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship. He climbs up a flight of stairs to the top floor, opens the unlocked door to the apartment, and is shocked to see his father making love to his fiancée.

Instead of being ours to mould and shape after our best knowledge and endeavor, they are themselves.

But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming and ultimately catastrophic relationship with his son’s fiancée.



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