
The Good Neighbours
Winner of the 2025 Prix Medicis Etranger
$34.19
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2022
Summary
WINNER OF THE PRIX MEDICIS ETRANGER 2025
Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography is detective work, drawing attention to things that would otherwise pass unseen and maybe he’s right …
Starting work on her new project - photographing murder houses - she returns to the island where she grew up for the first time since she left for Glasgow when…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529405194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152940519X |
| Author: | Nina Allan |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 248mm x 124mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Her literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect
Her literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect * Guardian (on The Dollmaker) *
Nina Allan weaves a haunting, intricate tale that masterfully blurs genre lines. You’ll want to savour every page * CultureFly (2021 picks) *
A captivating exploration of community, tragedy and memory. Nina Allan’s writing is enthralling. – Irenosen Okojie
A compulsive and twisting read … Nina Allan has created a surging and artistic narrative that lingers like a cold breath down your neck at the turn of the last page. – Fiona Murphy * Mummy Pages *
a compelling murder mystery filled with superstition, fairy folk and murder houses, set on Nina’s beloved Isle of Bute … spellbinding * Scots Magazine *
Allan keeps multiple plates spinning without ever losing psychological coherence as a portrait of its self-denying protagonist’s engrossingly complicated inner life. Satisfying, sophisticated and very finely done. * Daily Mail *
This book cleverly weaves the imagined and the real to create a haunting story that relives the past. * Candis *
[A] splendid crime narrative of memory, compulsion and the effects of trauma. * Guardian *
About The Author
Nina Allan
Nina Allan is a novelist and short story writer. Her previous fiction has won several prizes, including the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel, the Novella Award and the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire for Best Translated Work. She lives and works in Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute. The Good Neighbours is her fourth novel.
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