The Engagement - Couverture rigide

Hooper, Chloe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224096346 ISBN 13 : 9780224096348

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2013

Synopsis

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 uncle’s 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. It’s 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?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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. The Tall Man was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224096346
• ISBN 13: 9780224096348
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible