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A01=Joanna Briscoe
Author_Joanna Briscoe
award winning female authors
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dark sinister
domestic
dysfunctional love relationships
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girl teacher
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ISBN13=9781408821923
love
novel fiction
obsession
obsessive
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reading group book club
romance
sleep with me
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
suspense
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781408821923
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 124 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 May 2012
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: London, GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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‘A meditation on the lengths we will go to for love ... Briscoe is brilliant at conveying the obsessiveness of teenage love, ratcheting up the tension until the reader is every bit as involved as the character ... beguilingly good' Observer

Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, the older, married Mr. Dahl. She plots and speculates, yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Is it her imagination, or is the high-minded Mr. Dahl responding to her?

Cecilia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children could run wild, free to make their own choices and mistakes. But Dora discovers that there is more to the countryside idyll, and indeed to her own marriage, than she assumed, when she finds herself fascinated by the very last, the very worst person she could fall for: the elegant and dangerous Elisabeth Dahl.

Now, after twenty years, Cecilia is coming home, to face Dora, and to face her past. But the excitement and pain she had thought were buried cannot be buried. The past is a dangerous place.
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You, the unnerving and exceptional novel from Joanna Briscoe, is a stunning story of sex, memory and family lies.

Joanna Briscoe is the author of Mothers and Other Lovers, Skin and the highly acclaimed Sleep with Me, which was published in ten countries and adapted for ITV Drama by Andrew Davies. She has been a columnist for the Independent and the Guardian; she is currently a literary critic for the Guardian, and has contributed to all the major newspapers and magazines. She lives in London with her family.

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