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The Night Guest (Hardback)

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Hardback 288 Pages
Published: 16/01/2014

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In an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth - a widow whose sons work abroad - lives alone. Until one day a stranger bowls up, announcing that she's been sent by the authorities to be Ruth's carer.
At first, Ruth is happy to have the company. Frida is efficient and helpful, and willing to listen to Ruth's stories about her childhood in Fiji and the man she fell for there. But why does Ruth hear a tiger prowling through the house at night? How far can Ruth trust this enigmatic woman? And how far can she trust herself?
This hypnotic tale soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, dependence, fear and power, and about the mysterious workings of the mind. Here is a dazzling new writer, reminding us how powerfully fiction can speak to our innermost secrets.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
ISBN: 9781444776676
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 516 g
Dimensions: 239 x 157 x 27 mm

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“Very Clever!”

Ruth is a lonely widow, who sees tigers in the night, prowling around her house. However, this is not Africa, but suburban New South Wales in Australia! This is not her only visitor.
Enter Frida, who claims she has... More

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“An evocative and creepy debut.”

The Night Guest is hard to categorise - it's both a taut thriller and an altogether close-to-home examination of dementia and loneliness, written with a wonderful sense of pacing and language. Although the main... More

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Joe at Doncaster

“The Night Guest”

This is a fantastic novel about an isolated retiree whose questionable mental awareness leads to a fascinatingly unreliable (or is it?!) narrative describing the arrival of Frida into Ruth's life. There is a... More

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