The Woman Upstairs
'Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar' New York Times Book Review
$35.10
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2014
Summary
Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen.
One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza’s father has a fellowship at Harvard and his mother is a glamorous and successful installation artist. Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everythin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844087334 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844087336 |
| Author: | Claire Messud |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 160mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
This is a faultless, suspenseful novel
Messud is a breathtaking writer … a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage. - Independent on Sunday
Comedy, pathos, sadness: nothing seems beyond her. Her new book has all this-and more. The Woman Upstairs is not a pretty read, but that is precisely what makes it so hard to put down. - The EconomistMessud’s prose is a delight … addictive, memorable, intense - Financial Times - Lionel ShriverThis is a faultless, suspenseful novel - Mail on SundayAbout The Author
Claire Messud
Claire Messud was born in 1966 and was educated at Yale and at Cambridge. She is the author of three novels including The Emperor’s Children, a New York Times bestseller, and two novellas. She lives in Boston with her husband and their two children.
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