{"product_id":"books-the-trouble-makers-by-celia-fremlin","title":"The Trouble-Makers","description":"The Trouble-Makers (1963) was Celia Fremlin's fourth novel and - as Chris Simmons contends in his new preface to this Faber Finds edition - has a case to be considered among her very best.  Katharine is a suburban housewife, desultorily unemployed, unhappily married, struggling to keep up appearances but consoled to some degree by the even more aggravated woes of her next-door neighbour Mary - until, that is, Katharine is brought to the disturbing realisation that Mary's predicament is in fact substantially worse.   'A cleverly devised story. A chorus of nicely-characterised suburban wives speculate on Mary's troubles. Fremlin builds up the whole thing into a crescendo of horror.' Sunday Times  'One again Fremlin shows how incomparably more chilling is her quiet, semifactual style than some of the hysterical sentimentalities from Over the Water.' Guardian","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671289749777,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780571312962_34cb6cc8-e9e1-43a1-8626-7df7a942254c.jpg?v=1781515630","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-trouble-makers-by-celia-fremlin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}