Groundwater
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Groundwater

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<p><b>By the winner of the Betty Trask Prize - an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence</b><br><br><b>'Complex and chilling' <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><br><b>'Masterful - uncanny and unsettling' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH</b><br><b>'A disquieting study in estrangement' <i>IRISH TIMES</i></b><br><br>John and Liz have left the city to move to a remote house on the shores of a lake. But along with the boxes, they have brought their trouble with them. They find the new house already haunted - by their old disappointments and longing.<br><br>Though the house is barely unpacked, Liz's sister, with her children and husband, have come to visit. Over the course of a hot, slow week, tensions simmer; things go unsaid. And as outsiders descend on the house the atmosphere grows claustrophobic, the pressure near unbearable.<br><br>As summer draws to a close, and their family is thrown into crisis, John and Liz must confront what it means to belong to a place - and to each other.<br><br><b>'What animates the novel is a series of tensions: between material stability and emotional turmoil; idealism and conformity; speech and silence; love in the abstract and love in practice; between a life and the life' <i>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</i></b><br><b><br>'A finely drawn portrait not only of a couple in crisis, but of a world on the verge of disaster . McMullan writes with a masterful naturalism<i>' FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><br><b><br>'A masterclass in apprehension, exposing the fissures between an imagined life and its reality with stealthy power, and boldly upending reader expectations. Richly unsettling' <i>DAILY MAIL</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN
9781526678003
Sprache
Englisch
Einband / Art
Taschenbuch
Maße
196 x 128 x 22 mm
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Verlag / Hersteller
Bloomsbury UK

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