Perfect, Stories of the Impossible - Couverture souple

Emerson, Sally

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1739864506 ISBN 13 : 9781739864507

Editeur : Quadrant Books, 2022

Synopsis

In these stories of the impossible, master of the domestic thriller Sally Emerson introduces the eerie into her keen-eyed portraits of everyday life. A clerk working in a public register office begins to receive death certificates dated in the future, but can she alter fate and save the victims? A woman unable to have children discovers a way of cloning her husband, but is their cloned son destined to repeat the mistakes of his father? A suburban mother is prescribed health supplements with rather amorous side-effects; can she resist their sway and keep her hands off her neighbours? And who exactly are the tempestuous and dangerous warring couple who seem to have been alive forever?

Emerson's tales of quotidian life invaded by forces beyond our control are both beguiling and uncanny, and ultimately uplifting as she celebrates the tenuous gap between reality and unreality. Likened to Roald Dahl and Helen Dunmore, with a dash of Shirley Jackson, this is fiction at its finest, a rare blend of fantasy and the literary. Magical, humorous and unfailingly honest in its depiction of humanity, Perfect will stay with the reader long after leaving the twists and turns of its pages.

'So exquisitely drawn, Sally Emerson's stories are full of gripping twists and astute insights into emotional dilemmas. They're uncanny, and quite unlike anything else you'll read' JANE THYNNE

'Emerson's skill is to subvert the humdrum with sinister undercurrents' SUNDAY TIMES

'A writer who excels in portraying the darkness beneath polished surfaces' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'Sally Emerson has a talent for terror of the best kind, she understands obsession and hints chillingly at evil' DAILY TELEGRAPH

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sally Emerson is the award-winning author of novels including Heat, Separation and Second Sight and an anthologist of poetry and prose. She is a Travel Writer for The Sunday Times and previously was editor of the literary magazine Books and Bookmen. She began her career there as an editorial assistant in a basement in London's Victoria Street. At Oxford she edited Isis and continued her reviewing work and wrote for The Times. She won prizes including a Catherine Pakenham Award, the Vogue Talent Contest and the Radio Times Young Journalist of the Year.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quadrant Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1739864506
• ISBN 13: 9781739864507
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg