Cuckoo |WENDY PERRIAM

Cuckoo (1981) by Wendy Perriam is a darkly comic and intense exploration of marriage, longing, and emotional upheaval. The novel follows Frances, who is caught in the throes of fertility treatments and becoming increasingly entangled with the local milkman. Meanwhile, her husband Charles is grappling with his own inner turmoil—shocked disapproval yet guilty fascination arises when his fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter, Magda, arrives unexpectedly and disrupts their sterile, tightly controlled domestic life