This Sweet Sickness

The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer * The Times *Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense – Mark BillinghamHighsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn’t seem to mind if everyone knew it – J. G. Ballard * Daily Telegraph *No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying * Vogue *I love Highsmith so much … What a revelation her writing is – Gillian FlynnFor eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith * Time *Terrific book, very wry humour, and a great unreliable narrator – Sarah HilaryA writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger … Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension – Graham GreeneA cracker … a compellingly creepy novel that foreshadowed much of what Highsmith would explore in The Talented Mr Ripley * Sydney Morning Herald *A writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger … Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension – Graham GreeneHighsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense – Mark Billingham‘Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn’t seem to mind if everyone knew it’ – J. G. Ballard * Daily Telegraph *

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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