Martin Lynch-Gibbon, is a London wine merchant married to Antonia

Martin Lynch-Gibbon, is a London wine merchant married to Antonia. They had unite due to convenience and they do not have a child.He is having an social function with Georgie, an academic younger than he is. She gets pregnant early on, but they difference it. She attempts suicide after rejections by Martin and his brother.Seemingly out of nowhere, Antonia declares that she is leaving him. Martin is shocked. She goes with Palmer, angiotensin-converting enzyme of their friends and her psychoanalyst. As it turns out, she and Palmer have been having an affair as well.Martin leaves their household, but he does not postulate his affair to go public, or be committed any further.Then he falls for Honor, Palmers stepsister who teaches anthropology at Cambridge. One night, he goes into her house uninvited and unannounced, and finds her in bed- with her stepbrother.Later, Antonia tells Martin that she has been seeing Alexander as well, his older brother, and it dates backwards to them ha ving been introduced to each other.He turns to whisky to battle his problems. More than being an adulterer, he thinks of himself as a cuckold.A Severed Head explores fear of intimacy amidst the married couple, the fear of being in a relationship that set commitment. It also illuminates the ways in which sexual relationships are unraveled, especially when one manipulates or dominates the other.