Peripheral Vision - Softcover

Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Ferguson trained and worked as a nurse and midwife, and this experience informs much of her fiction. She is the author of six novels, including It So Happens (2005) and Peripheral Vision (2007), both long-listed for the Orange Prize. Peripheral Vision is her first novel to be published in the United States. She lives in Bristol, England.

Omaha World-Herald

“...erudite reading... [that gives] a sense of breathlessness for the reader anxious to know the next piece of a character's story...a fine undertaking for the reader.”


 Vogue

“... Fiction finds suspense in twisting tales of love and legacy. ... Patricia Ferguson's deftly plotted Peripheral Vision revolves around three women- a fifties-era housewife traumatized by her son's damaged eye, a shy working-class nurse involved with a wealthy medical student, and a contemporary eye surgeon blind to her own misperceptions- who struggle to bring their lives into focus.”

 
Library Journal

“Ferguson makes excellent use of flashback and alternating...illustrating the subtle yet telling influences people can have on one another in even the most innocent of interactions...Fans of literary fiction will appreciate the novel's wit and quietly apt observations on the human condition.”
ForeWord Magazine

“Crisp dialogue, trenchant observations, and crystalline details that coalesce into an indelible whole...Readers looking for a ‘sure thing’ would be wise to cast their sights on this emerging British novelist.”


The New York Times Book Review

A deepening of the story. . . . Pemper argues that the 'crucial accomplishment' was not the list itself but 'the multifarious acts of resistance that, like tiny stones being placed into a mosaic one by one, had made the whole process possible'...Pemper devotes most of his carefully written book to the numerous small initiatives that, in his telling, played a part in the rescue effort."