This novel explores the conflicts which underlie even the most conventional of lives - the eternal struggle between female and male, the spirit and the flesh, reason and desire. A young couple acquire a cottage in Somerset, Liffey moving to live there while her husband stays on in London.
Adaptations (1)
Puffball was adapted into a 2007 film.
Puffball2007 · film · 120 min · dir. Nicolas Roeg · IMDb ↗IMDb4.30%Architect Liffey moves to the Irish countryside with her American fiancé, Richard, to refurbish a long-abandoned cottage. Their neighbours are elderly Molly Tucker and her adult daughter, Mabs, who has three daughters but wants a son. After Richard returns to New York City, Liffey learns she's pregnant, which angers Molly and Mabs. Convinced Liffey has the baby her daughter deserves, Molly tries to use black magic to eliminate the fetus.
