Dance With Me
The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD, also a hit BBC series starring Emily Watson
A man dies a week after rewriting his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. Confused with her newfound inheritance, Bet investigates Peter's past and discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed…
In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings. Somebody taps at her door. But there's no one there. In the basement of the office, something unpleasant is lurking ...
What connects these two women and can they ever escape it?
PRAISE FOR LOUISE DOUGHTY:
'Dance With Me is a book dotted with vivid observational set pieces, cunningly slotted together...Doughty is a good writer, deft with observational details...This book does dance with you. It holds you, leads you, and twirls you about.' LYNNE TRUSS, SUNDAY TIMES
'Louise Doughty writes about people who don't usually get written about...every bit as skilled as her contemporaries, her writing has a pessimistic edge which makes her books all the funnier. Dance With Me is a painfully accurate record of mating rituals and dating nightmares' INDEPENDENT
‘A thriller, a bit of a ghost story, and a love story. It has pace, style, mystery, excitement’ EVENING STANDARD
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Originally published in the U.K. in 1996, Doughty's intriguing psychological thriller weaves together the lives of two very different women. Outgoing, cynical and "promiscuous as hell," Bet Walker relates the "facts" in a deliberately affectless first-person narrative. Peter, her boyfriend of three weeks, has died in a car crash, having just altered his will and left his considerable fortune to her. Bet obviously needs to learn more about her mysterious boyfriend. She talks to his two best friends, Alex and Sophie, and gradually discovers the secrets left in Peter's house, which she has inherited. Bet's story alternates with the third-person account of shy, conservative Iris, who works alone in an oppressive office as an Internet "information consultant." Troubled by blackouts and sensing she is being stalked, Iris discovers that her workplace was an insane asylum during the Victorian era and is now haunted by past victims. Bet's narration has touches of humor, but Iris's fragile mental state is chillingly rendered, and the suspense and uncertainty mount as the two women's stories begin to converge. Doughty's final twist is agile and shocking.
