On the Edge

by Edward St. Aubyn (Author)

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  1999

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  Peter, a disaffected merchant banker in his mid-thirties, suffers a coup de foudre when he lays eyes on the delectable Sabine, and sets out on a reckless mission to track her down. His search takes him to some of the outposts of New Age culture, and there he finds something he wasn't looking for.

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  Paperback
  2008

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  Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life - his disillusioned merchant-banker's life - and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beating heart of New Ageism in northern California.

  Each of his fellow seekers is in hot pursuit of that elusive something (happiness?), and in their eccentric company Peter stumbles across vistas he had never before dared to imagine . . .

  `St Aubyn has achieved a comic novel which is more than a send-up and carries the message that love is not quite all you need' Independent

  
  
  

  `An intellectually informed, richly insightful and vigorously funny take on the modern condition' Sunday Times

  
  
  

  `Pierced with goodwill, tenderness and a new kind of thoughtfulness' Spectator

  
  
  

  `His satire is unfailingly funny and immensely satisfying' Guardian