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OverviewNora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's father has a fellowship at Harvard and his mother is a glamorous and successful installation artist. Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. Liberation from her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire MessudPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Virago Press Ltd Edition: Digital original Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.223kg ISBN: 9781844087334ISBN 10: 1844087336 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 02 January 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsMessud is a breathtaking writer ... a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage. Independent on Sunday Comedy, pathos, sadness: nothing seems beyond her. Her new book has all this-and more. The Woman Upstairs is not a pretty read, but that is precisely what makes it so hard to put down. The Economist Messud's prose is a delight ... addictive, memorable, intense -- Lionel Shriver Financial Times This is a faultless, suspenseful novel Mail on Sunday Author InformationClaire Messud was born in 1966 and was educated at Yale and at Cambridge. She is the author of three novels including The Emperor's Children, a New York Times bestseller, and two novellas. She lives in Boston with her husband and their two children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |