Name: The Engagement von Chloe Hooper
SKU: 9780224096348
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The Engagement Zusammenfassung

The Engagement Chloe Hooper

Two people. How many lies?

Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: Alexander Colquhoun, a handsome, well-mannered farmer, is paying for her to stay at his property in remote Australia. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, has been working at her uncles estate agency in Melbourne, where Alexander is looking for a place to buy. The luxury apartments Liese shows him become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies and helps pay her debts. Its a game. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks.

Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and realises a new game has begun.

Chloe Hooper's riveting and provocative new novel is a psychological thriller for the modern age, an exploration of the snares of money and love and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?

The Engagement Bewertungen

A complex psychological thriller that draws on the rich literary history of madwomen in the attic, from Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper to Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca... The Engagement is not Fifty Shades of Grey; its kicks, and kicks in the teeth, are much more subtle. -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
The pages fly past so quickly you almost miss the sharp turn of phrase and imagery Chloe Hoopers novel engages us, like Liese in Colquhouns fantasy, in an S&M web for which we dont know the safe word. -- Fleur MacDonald * Literary Review *
The novel has an affecting oddness all its own... I hope that some of E L James' seemingly insatiable fans chance upon The Engagement and find there is more satisfaction in its pages than in Christian Greys whipping room. -- Alex Peake-Tomkinson * Daily Telegraph *
The Engagement is Chloe Hoopers second novel and comes almost a decade after her well-received debut, A Childs Book of True Crime. It is a much tighter, more suspenseful work The Engagement is compelling. -- Stephanie Bishop * Times Literary Supplement *
Hooper ably sustains the tension, carefully deploying surprises. The isolation of the farm and the creeping shocks of the wilderness create a potent unease. * The New Yorker *

Über Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper was born in 1973. Her highly praised first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her Observer article about the Doomadgee case, 'Island of Lost Souls', was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Awards. Her last book, The Tall Man, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009. In Australia, it won seven major literary awards.

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Sku

GOR004496417

ISBN 13

9780224096348

ISBN 10

0224096346

Titel

The Engagement Chloe Hooper

Autor

Chloe Hooper

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Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

2013-01-24

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256

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