Kate Jennings — Moral Hazard: A Novel

Fourth Estate 2003 Paperback. The acclaimed second novel from Kate Jennings, author of 'Snake'. On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. She finds herself working there because she needs serious money: after ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is gravely ill. So begins her journey into two nightmare worlds. 'Powerful, and darkly, disconcertingly comic. ' Margaret Walters, Sunday Times 'Blackly funny, coruscatingly clear-eyed and intelligent, Kate Jennings' second novel doesn't waste a word. ' Maureen Duffy, author of Restitution 'A unique book by an extraordinary writer: The great city illuminated from within. ' Shirley Hazzard, author of 'The Transit of Venus' 'A small pearl of a novel. as gripping as any thriller. ' Newsday. (ISBN: 9781841157382). Good.