Parts of it shocked me, and I am not easily shocked. 'Absolutely terrifying, beautiful, and appalling. 'Beautifully written, perfectly paced, impressively clever, and ultimately shocking in a way you never see coming.' - Nelson DeMille 'A page-turner of a literary thriller.' - Sara Waters 'A perfect and literary puzzle, an irresistible tale anout marriage and murder, both thriling and moving.' - Scott Turow Als die Lehrerin Susan Morrow das Manuskript ihres Ex-Ehemannes zur Durchsicht erhlt, ahnt sie noch nicht, welchen Einfluss der Roman auf ihr Leben haben. 'A superb and thrilling novel.extrodinary.' - Ian McEwan Tony and Susan is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. A ustin Wright, who died in 2003, was a novelist and English professor at the University of Cincinnati. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage. He was a novelist and academic, for many years Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati. He writes asking her to read the book she was always his best critic, he says.Īs Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. Austin Wright was born in New York in 1922.

Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.

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