This made the shortlist of the “lost Booker Prize” of 1970, which was retrospectively announced in 2010 and won by J.G. Farrell’s Troubles.
It’s a disturbing short novel about a woman who travels to another country and arranges her own murder – a study of mental illness and alienation. There are flashes of wit and social insight, but the knowledge that it will end in a violent death – and the cold, clinical way that the protagonist seems to engineer this – makes for a rather nasty read.
It also has some of the strangest jacket copy I have ever encountered:
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