... and not as a stranger is a romantic novel, very popular in its time, at the top of the list of best-selling novels in America in 1954. It was screened in 1955, produced and directed by the famous director Stanley Kramer.
The central character of this novel is Anna, a woman with three children and a writer husband, obsessively preoccupied with writing a book about the Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal.
"A Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" is a sincere, intimate and entertaining personal story of a woman in her thirties who is trying to put her chaotic life (which seems perfect from the outside) in order.