The Guest

Sultry and engrossing, with a note of menace, it’s a gorgeously smart affair whose deceptive lightness conceals strange depths and an arresting originality … take it to the beach and savour every page * Observer *Drawing the reader inexorably on to the heightened, rug-pulling denouement, this is beach reading at its finest * Daily Mail *Every sentence as sharp as a scalpel … tantalizing – Liska Jacobs * New York Times Book Review *At once chilling and eminently evocative of the rarefied world it portrays … a definite contender for Status Vacation Book of 2023 * Vogue *The ideal mix of hazy summer glamour and shimmering threat for compulsive beach reading… A gripping, almost ghastly book – Megan Nolan, author of ACTS OF DESPERATION * Observer, Summer Reads of 2023 *The Girls was exceptional; The Guest, with its exquisite pacing and deliciously muddled moral compass, is even better – Emily Watkins * Scotland on Sunday *Atmospheric and at times incandescent – Michelle Hart * Los Angeles Times *Cline’s writing at its very best - hypnotically propulsive, viscerally disquieting, and moving in the most unpredictable ways – Doug Battersby * Financial Times *The tension never wavers … This is rich material for Cline, who trains a chilly eye on the preposterous affluence and exclusivity of that part of the world – Emma Brockes * Guardian *The Girls was exceptional; The Guest…is even better… Compulsively readable… The Guest is as refreshing as a dip in a cool pool on a hot day * i *

Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O’Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.

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