Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408822975
Publisert
2011-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
117 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994), which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories Wait Till I Tell You (1997). In 2006 she began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became functionally blind as a result. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to enable her to open her eyelids.
Daisy needs to hire a new nanny for her son; the efficient and capable Margaret Pride appears to be the perfect candidate. But as Daisy becomes increasingly removed from family life and the nanny becomes more prominent, oddities in Margaret's behaviour soon surface.
Masterfully constructed and crackling with tension, A Little Stranger reveals that self-deception can be just as dangerous as the deceit of others.
Les mer
From the author of What to Look for in Winter
'Compelling and unsettling ... McWilliam uses the conventions of middlebrow fiction to slice away its usual reassurance .. very funny too, a comedy of good manners in which each well-meaning utterance becomes a source of confusion and dismay'
Les mer
From the author of What to Look for in Winter
Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her critically acclaimed memoir What to Look For in Winter
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408822975
Publisert
2011-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
117 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160
Forfatter