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HALFWAY HOUSE (edición en inglés) de HELEN FITZGERALD
- HALFWAY HOUSE (edición en inglés)
- HELEN FITZGERALD
- Idioma: Inglés
- Formatos: pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
- ISBN: 9781914585715
- Editorial: Orenda Books
Overview
On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage … and thats just the beginning… The twisty, shocking, darkly funny thriller by award-winning author Helen FitzGerald.`A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event … magnificent´ Mark Billingham`Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell – this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form´ Doug Johnstone`[Lou] is irresistible and very funny … The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing´ Literary Review_______They`re the housemates from Hell…When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O´Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer – all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou…And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything – including her life.Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman…__________________________`Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny … an amazingly talented writer´ Michael Wood`A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity´ B M CarrollPraise for Helen FitzGerald**Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**`Sharp, shocking and savagely funny´ Chris Whitaker`Dark, dark, deliciously dark´ Amanda Jennings`Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling´ Miranda Dickinson`The main character is one of the most extraordinary you`ll meet between the pages of a book´ Ian Rankin`Sublime´ Guardian`A dark, comic masterpiece´ Mark Edwards`Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying´ Erin Kelly`Tantalisingly powerful´ The Times`The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist´ Heat`FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth´ Daily Telegraph`Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this´ Sun