Summary
Terrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant’s breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and female.
Elizabeth Skorvecky has just come out of a long-term relationship with her boyfriend. Alone in her Victorian house, her only companions are her cat, a trashy crime novel she’s translating from Czech, and her music. As the summer ends and the days draw in, unsettling things begin to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081796 |
| Author: | Sarah Dunant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
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Her narrative pulses with emotional truth and heart …Compelling and distressing
A chilling - sometimes terrifying - and tautly written thriller - THE TIMES
A bold, intelligent assault on the masculine conventions of the thriller genre - THE SUNDAY TIMESDunant’s unsettling novel is compelling to the end - THE EXPRESS ON SUNDAYHer narrative pulses with emotional truth and heart …Compelling and distressing - MAIL ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Sarah Dunant
Sarah Dunant is the author of the critically acclaimed THE BIRTH OF VENUS. She has written seven crime novels for which she won two Silver Daggers. She was editor of War of the Words (Virago 1994) and co-edited with Roy Porter The Age of Anxiety (Virago 1996).
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