Summary
A small community on New Zealand’s Tasman Bay is suddenly overwhelmed by a bloodthirsty madness.
There are fourteen survivors.
Trapped in by a strange force-field called the ‘no-go’, cut off from the world outside, they must pull together, bury the dead and face their fears.
Because whatever caused the insanity is still at large. And it hasn’t finished with them yet.
WAKE is a riveting tour-de-force. A book about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472151834 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472151836 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Knox |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 29mm |
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Brilliant.
Wake is the creepiest book I’ve ever loved: gorgeous, horrifying and insanely inventive. Elizabeth Knox continues to monopolize my awe pedestal.
Sly and ingenious.One for fans of Stephen King - Red magazineWake is a triumph all of its own. Knox writes with a rare psychological acuity about humans under pressure in an intolerable, incomprehensible predicament. - Financial TimesKnox keeps the monster off stage and examines the psychological consequences of its depredations on the survivors, subverting the norms of the horror genre and thus making the ambiguous finale all the more startling. Wake reads like a collaboration between Dean Koontz and John Wyndham, rewritten by Margaret Atwood. - GuardianWhat starts off as a horror story builds into a taut, psychological sci-fi thriller that is alive to the troubling questions of what happens to humans when civilisation as they know it disintegrates. - Sunday Times CultureElizabeth Knox has the most original and lateral literary mind in New Zealand … I steamed through the book; by the end my hair stood of end. I shouted , Holy shit! several times. - MetroTerrifying dystopia in which survivors of a massacre hide behind a ‘No-Go’ screen - Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox is one of New Zealand’s leading writers. She is the author of ten novels, including The Vintner’s Luck (longlisted for the Orange Prize 1999). Elizabeth was made an Arts Foundation Laureate in 2000 and an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. She lives in Wellington with her husband and son.
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