Her: A fabulously creepy thriller - Rilegato

Lane, Harriet

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ISBN 10: 0297865056 ISBN 13: 9780297865056

Casa editrice: W&N, 2014

Riassunto

'Thriller of the Year' Amanda Craig

'As seductive as it is chilling, HER is quality literary fiction meets psychological thriller' Lucy Scholes, OBSERVER

'The ultimate frenemy thriller' NOW

Two women; two different worlds.
Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on hold.
Nina is sophisticated and independent - entirely in control.

When the pair meet, Nina generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn't the first time the women's paths have crossed. Nina remembers Emma and she remembers what Emma did . . .

But what exactly does Nina want from her?
And how far will she go in pursuit of it?

'Another taut, tense psychological thriller from the author of the acclaimed 2012 debut novel ALYS, ALWAYS . . . A compelling revenge drama that will make you think twice about getting too chummy with the neighbours.'
Sebastian Shakespeare, TATLER

'Harriet Lane keeps the reader on the edge until the last page.'
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'Dazzlingly perceptive of every detail . . . my thriller chiller of the year'
Leila Sanai, INDEPENDENT

'Tautly written . . . the endgame, when it comes, is shattering.'
INDEPENDENT

'If you loved Notes on a Scandal's brand of toxic camaraderie, you'll love this'
GRAZIA Summer Reads

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Recensione

Lane ratchets up the apprehension with a maestro's skill we first saw in her debut, Alys Always.. Read it: everyone else will be. (Sophia Martell THE OBSERVER)

a terrific, subtle thriller with delicious echoes of Patricia Highsmith and F Scott Fitzgerald (THE INDEPENDENT)

The exquisitely sinister psychological thriller that is going to take us all by storm this summer, Harriet Lane's Her, has a Notes on a Scandal-type relationship between an exhausted young mother and her rich sophisticated neighbour. (Amanda Craig THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Harriet Lane's Alys Always was one of the most memorable fictional debuts of recent years, a seemingly simple story that discovered subtle ways to unsettle, and which found elegant, disturbing insights into familiar English obsessions with class and status. Lane's new book, Her, due in June, promises to be this year's unmissable summer novel. Among Lane's antecedents is the pin-sharp prose of Patricia Highsmith (Tim Adams THE OBSERVER)

Deliciously nasty, Her belongs to an emerging "women beware women" sub-genre indebted to Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal. Yet it is distinctive in its domesticity and its missing formulaic elements: a violence-free psychological thriller in which the victim doesn't even know there is a threat (John Dugdale THE SUNDAY TIMES)

tautly written psychological thriller... there is forensic social observation here. Her London is recognisably real. Both Emma and Nina feel like women you might pass on a leafy Islington street. She has a sharp eye for telling detail... Then the endgame, when it comes, is shattering. (THE INDEPENDENT)

Icicle-sharp... This is psychological bait-and-switchery to put on the shelf alongside Patricia Highsmith and Georges Simenon (Jan Stuart NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)

Lane's writing shines a spotlight on life's domestic flotsam. Lego under the fridge, damp laundry, crumbs in the toy box: these details of middle-class parenthood are picked out in Hitchcockian detail, gathering weight, promising imminent horror. Lane's first book, Alys, Always, was one of the most talked-about thrillers of 2012, a psychological drama exploring deceit and manipulation. Her is another study of spiteful female friendship, unwinding slowly and subtly over a year... Lane's writing is always careful and elegant, loaded with significance and often beautiful (Charlotte Runcie THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)

a new generation of female suspense novelists - writers like Megan Abbott, Tana French, Harriet Lane and Gillian Flynn... are redefining contemporary crime fiction with character driven-narratives that defy genre conventions. (NEW YORK TIMES)

As seductive as it is chilling, Her is quality literary fiction meets psychological thriller, the devil of which is in the detail (Lucy Scholes THE OBSERVER)

Descrizione del libro

'Thriller of the Year' Amanda Craig
You don't remember her... But she remembers you. The stunning new novel from Harriet Lane, author of 2012 break-out hit ALYS, ALWAYS.

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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0297865056
• ISBN 13: 9780297865056
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288