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The Ruins (inbunden, eng)
''I was completely transported by The Ruins. Phoebe Wynne has evocatively rendered a beautiful, doomed French chateau while cre...
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''I was completely transported by The Ruins. Phoebe Wynne has evocatively rendered a beautiful, doomed French chateau while creating immersive, almost dream-like atmospherics. I loved this novel'' SARAH PEARSE, bestselling author of The Sanatorium
COME FOR THE DECADENCELIVE THE NIGHTMARE. STAY FOR THE REVENGE. . .
Summer, 1985: Ruby has stayed at the chateau with her family every summer of her twelve years. It was her favourite place to be, away from the strictures of her formal childhood, but this year uninvited guests have descended, and everything is about to change...
As the intense August heat cloaks the chateau, the adults within start to lose sight of themselvesOld disputes are thrown back and forth, tempers rise, morals loosen, and darkness begins to creep around them all. Ruby and her two young friends soon discover it is best not to be seen or heard as the summer spirals down to one fateful night and an incident that can never be undone...
Summer, 2010: One of the three young girls, now grown and newly widowed, returns to the chateau, and in her fight to free herself from its grip, she uncovers what truly happened that long, dark summer.
With riveting psychological complexity, The Ruins captures the glittering allure of the Mediterranean, and the dark shadows that wait beneath the surface
Format | Inbunden |
Omfång | 400 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Quercus Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum | 2022-07-07 |
ISBN | 9781529408812 |
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 400
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Quercus Publishing
- Utgivningsdatum 2022-07-07
- ISBN 9781529408812