McGrath moves the narrative along quickly and skillfully in this story of a psychiatrist's wife who enters into an obsessive and ultimately desructive affair with a patient in the hospital where her husband is the administrator. There are too many echoes of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina here, as a woman with an acceptable if not particularly exciting marriage throws away everything for a man who is, in this case, a homicidal maniac. If that seems unlikely, it only gets worse, as every man Stella meets seems overwhelmed with a mad passion for her. Ultimately, it is tedious rather than tragic.
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