The Night Guest
$23.77
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2014
Summary
The debut of a major Australian writer, The Night Guest is a mesmerising novel about trust, love, dependence, and the fear that the things you think you know may become the things you’re least sure about.
One morning Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later that day a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she’s blown in from the sea. In fact she’s come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger—both are here to stay, and neither is what they …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143571339 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143571338 |
| Author: | Fiona McFarlane |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
‘The best Australian first novel I’ve read in years. I so much admire the intelligence that animates it, and her calm sentences that contain surprises.’ - Michelle de Kretser, winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award for Questions of Travel. ‘Such an accomplished and polished debut. There’s a delicacy and poignancy to the writing, combined with almost unbearable suspense.’ - Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life
About The Author
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane was born in Sydney, and has degrees in English from Sydney University and Cambridge University, and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Michener Fellow. Her work has been published in Zoetrope- All-Story, Southerly, the Best Australian Stories and the New Yorker, and she has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips Exeter Academy and the Australia Council for the Arts. The Night Guest, her debut novel, has sold into fifteen territories around the world. She lives in Sydney.
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