A01=Julia Leigh
Author_Julia Leigh
Bereavement
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Escape
Gothic
Women
Product details
- ISBN 9780571238972
- Weight: 110g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Accompanied by two young children, Olivia has left a violent marriage and returned to her childhood home, an austere chateau surrounded by formal gardens. She considers herself to be already 'murdered', dead before dying. At the same time as this unannounced homecoming another couple are expected at the chateau: her brother Marcus and his wife Sophie are due back from the hospital with their newborn. In this brittle world of emotional control everyone tries to hold themselves together as a tragic secret pushes them towards breaking point . . . A darkly mesmerising tale, Disquiet is disturbing, atmospheric, subtle and quite brilliant.
Julia Leigh was born in Sydney in 1970. She studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney. The Hunter, her début novel, has been published around the world and has won numerous awards, including a Betty Trask Award and the 2001 Prix de l'Astrolabe. It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, longlisted for a US National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for the Meilleur Livre Etranger. Julia Leigh was chosen by the Observer as one of twenty-one writers to watch in the millennium, and the New York Times selected her book as a 'Notable Book of the Year'. Leigh currently resides in Princeton, Massachusetts.
