If a happy love relationship is the goal, why get stuck in an unhappy one? Then just move on, right? Or is that not so easy?
Depth and perspective. Spirituality and humour. Hunger is a universal, partly true story about love.
Nick and Piene, both successful and confident in their social and working lives, are trapped in an unhealthy relationship. Narcissistic behaviour and patterns from their childhood get in their way considerably.
A bizarre accident painfully exposes the relationship. Is it time to make other choices, or will love keep them together?
A compelling psychological novel in which the toxic situation is told from the point of view of both protagonists and shows that manipulation never comes from one side, but is fuelled by choking and digesting back and forth.
For anyone who is, was or wants to be in a relationship again and is interested in the underlying dynamics of love life.
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‘Hunger, a partly truth-based psychological novel about a problematic love affair involving interdependence and manipulation. The story follows Nick and Piene, two individuals who are successful in their working lives but are stuck in an unhealthy relationship marked by narcissistic behaviour, scarred by childhood traumas. When they experience a car accident together, the problems in their relationship are painfully exposed. Is it time to make other choices, or will love keep them together?
Written in a smooth and accessible style, from the two perspectives of the main characters. Linda Fontijn is a writer and communications and marketing consultant. She has written several books, including ‘Bezoedeld’ about a true-life miscarriage of justice.’