Sally Emerson

eBook, ePUB

Fire Child (eBook, ePUB)

A masterful, chilling, suspense psychological story

Beschreibung

Hypnotic, vivid and unputdownable, Sally Emerson's novel about two erratic adolescents pulsates with lust and black humour. Tessa, Fire Child's dark heroine is only thirteen when she discovers that she can drive men mad with love - and to their death. Martin is a reclusive pyromaniac and he's looking for the one woman who can unleash his demonic desires. When they meet, everything changes. Their union is obsessional and devastating. Unfurling in a series of compelling diary entries, Fire Child masterfully examines the nature of evil and what it means to be human. Sally Emerson's blazing love story throbs with lust and black humour. Newly re-issued as part of a series of six titles by Quadrant Books.

'A taut, beautifully-constructed story moving simply but inexorably towards its cataclysmic ending' Sunday Times

'A book that can be read as a comedy of modern manners, a love story or murder mystery - a rare achievement' Times Literary Review

'With the narrative grip of Stephen King, Emerson's skill is in charging this novel with compulsiveness and foreboding' The Independent

'Told with power and skill. Sally Emerson has a talent for terror of the best kind, she understands obsession and hints chillingly at evil' Daily Telegraph

'Sally Emerson writes like a dangerous angel' Douglas Adams

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.2MB

Barrierefreiheit

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Autor

Sally Emerson is an award-winning novelist who is publishing 'Perfect, Stories of the Impossible', her first short story collection through Quadrant Books, in June 2022. In the stories everything seems ordinary enough until something extraordinary begins to happen and takes the reader nowhere expected. Sally has published six novels, all of which were reissued as classics in 2021 by Quadrant Books to critical and commercial acclaim. Of these, the bestselling 'Fire Child' and 'Heat' are dark love stories, while 'Separation' published in the States as 'Hush Little Baby' has been called a domestic thriller but is about the deep, sometimes dangerous, love between children and their parents. In all her novels danger is not far away, and the sex and love are part of that danger. Helen Dunmore wrote 'Welcome back to these dark, gripping and timeless novels' and Kate Saunders called them 'extraordinary and original'.Sally was brought up in London, lived in the States for a while, went to Oxford university and edited magazines including the literary magazine 'Books and Bookmen'. She has written fiction all her life, and a faded collection her mother gave her as a child, 'Great Short Stories of the World' is still one of her favourite books. She likes the playfulness of short stories; the way they grab the reader and tease the reader in such a short space.She writes on travel for 'The Sunday Times' and 'The Times', favouring places that challenge, and lives in north west London. Her three anthologies about birth, love and death ("New Life", 'Be Mine', 'In Loving Memory'), bring together the greatest writing on the subjects to comfort and inspire and amuse.Her stories, like her novels, are mischievous and transgressive; they have been compared to the work of Roald Dahl and Shirley Jackson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quadrant Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781739864590
• Artikelnr.: 69071507