Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past is a 1998 novel by Ben Elton, published by Bantam Press and later addapted into a stage performance by the West Yorkshire Playhouse . The plot centres around Polly Slade, an ordinary woman with a highly unordinary past, whose world is thrown into turmoil when the two men in her life show up at her front door in the middle of the night: Jack, a general in the United States Army with whom she had a short-lived affair as a teenager; and Peter, an obsessive stalker who has been terrifying her for the past two years. Themes of the novel include obsession, rape, the morality of war, gender politics, and whether one can ever hope to return to the past and find that everything is just as one remembers it. Polly Slade is a middle aged woman with no money, no love life and a boring, run of the mill job at the local town council. She has attracted the obsessive attention of Peter, an ex-client, who continues to harass and threaten her in breach of several court orders she... full article at wikipedia