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The Eye of the Beholder

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Informationen zum Autor Margie Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia. A Fulbright Scholar, she was educated in South Africa and the United States, has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and is an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. She is an award-winning journalist who has been dubbed the Queen of South African Crime Fiction. Her Clare Hart crime novels have been translated into ten languages and are being developed into a television series. She is President Emerita of PEN South Africa and was the patron of Rape Crisis Cape Town while she lived in South Africa. She now lives in London. @MargieOrford Klappentext When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know.Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.One act of violence sets the three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth. In a nail-biting thriller set between the scorched red soil of South Africa, the pitiless snowfields of Canada and the chilly lochsides of western Scotland, each woman must contend with the spectres of male violence, sexual abuse and the choices we each make to keep our souls. Vorwort When an art expert goes missing, three women fighting to regain control of their lives realise their future is about to become as dangerous as their past in this brutally compelling thriller 'Subtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary' PETER JAMES Zusammenfassung When an art expert goes missing, three women fighting to regain control of their lives realise their future is about to become as dangerous as their past in this brutally compelling thriller'Subtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary' PETER JAMES

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Authors Margie Orford, Orford Margie
Publisher Canongate Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 26.01.2023
 
EAN 9781838856878
ISBN 978-1-83885-687-8
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Women, Thriller / suspense fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 21st Century, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Southern Africa, FICTION / World Literature / Scotland / 21st Century

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