Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Внимателно използвана книга - леко захабен външен вид.
Издателство: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 195
Дебелина (мм): 23
Корици: Меки

‘A meditation on the lengths we will go to for love ... Briscoe is brilliant at conveying the obsessiveness of teenage love, ratcheting up the tension until the reader is every bit as involved as the character ... beguilingly good Observer

Seventeen-year-old Cecilia is obsessed with her English teacher, the older, married Mr Dahl. She plots and speculates, yet she never dreams it could actually happen - but is it her imagination, or is the high-minded Mr Dahl responding to her? Her mother Dora, meanwhile, has preoccupations of her own. A move to Dartmoor was supposed to help reinvigorate her faltering marriage, but Dora soon finds herself increasingly drawn to the elegant, dangerously seductive wife of Mr Dahl - Elisabeth. Twenty years later, Cecilia returns home to face her mother and her past. But the secrets they thought were buried cannot be buried any longer ...

'Briscoe weaves compelling fiction. The prose is rich, the setting evocative ... To be hooked by a book is a treat, and I certainly enjoyed my time in this one’s tangles'
Rachel Seiffert, Guardian

‘Silkily transgressive ... tantalising'
Independent on Sunday

‘Fantastic ... I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t read this book. What a treat you have in store’
Evening Standard

‘Life was put firmly on hold while I raced to finish it’
Maggie O’Farrell

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About the Author

JOANNA BRISCOE is the author of Mothers and Other Loners, Shin and the highly acclaimed Sleep With Me, which was published in eleven countries and adapted for ITV Drama by Andrew Davies. She has been a columnist for the Independent and the Guardian; she is currently a literary critic for the Guardian, and has contributed to all the major newspapers and magazines. She lives in London with her family.