The Housekeeper
$31.73
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2008
Summary
A page-turning thriller and a stunning tale of love and loss in wintry rural America.
When Jamie Hall finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she can have no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. An orphaned teenage runaway who has fetched up with only her dog and her backpack in the lonesome town of her grandparents’ birth, Jamie becomes housekeeper to Margaret, a retired photographer. There she meets Galen, a trapper who now lives at a remove…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099502494 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099502496 |
| Author: | Melanie Wallace |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
Wallace has a spark of warmth and can be very moving
Wallace has a spark of warmth and can be very moving * The Times *The poetic prose and bleak setting are impressive * Literary Review *A story of pursuit, loss and redemption * Daily Express *Wallace dares to suggest that even when terrible things are happening, there is always some speck of humanity, and of beauty, somewhere – Margaret ForsterThe most literary of thriller writers, Melanie Wallace is not one to let a story get in the way of a finely crafted pored-over sentence. In many ways, the tense, thick and dark prose in The Housekeeper is almost painterly, painstakingly setting the scene of a savagely wintry, rural America * Metro *
About The Author
Melanie Wallace
Melanie Wallace was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, and now lives with her husband in Myloi, an agrarian village below the Ohi mountain range in Greece, and in Athens.
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