The Woman Upstairs

Awards:   Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 (UK) Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013.
Author:   Claire Messud
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Edition:   Digital original
ISBN:  

9781844087334


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   02 January 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013
  • Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 (UK)
  • Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013.

Overview

Nora 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.

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Author:   Claire Messud
Publisher:   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:  

9781844087334


ISBN 10:   1844087336
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   02 January 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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.

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Messud 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 Information

Claire 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.

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