''The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life'' is a novel by the British playwright, novelist and Oscar nominated screenwriter William Nicholson.

Plot summary

Laura, the central character, lives happily enough with her husband and children, until a long forgotten lover comes back into her life. When her passion is re-awakened, she comes to realise how the excitement has faded from her life. As the story unfolds we find that everyone in the

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

village where the novel is set, lives with their own inner dramas. None of them seems to notice that she is going through a crisis. The hidden feelings of a large cast of characters are interwoven to form a plot that attempts to reveal the intensity with which ordinary lives are led. The novel is multi-stranded exploring the highs and lows of life. Sometimes serious, at others sublime, it tries to answer the central question, how much happiness we should expect from life.

External links

Author's Website https://web.archive.org/web/20120729010924/http://www.williamnicholson.com/bio/ 2009 British novels Novels set in Sussex {{2000s-novel-stub