- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Fig Tree (28 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905490062
- ISBN-13: 978-1905490066
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,314,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Plagued by a strange malady, Belle is an affluent, pill-addicted desperate housewife going through the motions of doing up her huge new London house. Her workaholic husband is away for months at a time. Dangerously idle since leaving her job in an art gallery, she invites the alluring Tina, a young local waitress whom she barely knows, to become her lodger. But Tina's menacing boyfriend Carl is never far behind...
Haunted by fragments of troubling history and at a loss with her current existence, Belle becomes darkly enmeshed with the younger woman. Before long the two women are living off each other's reflections. The lines between Tina and Belle, fantasy and reality, truth and deception, watcher and watched, dissolve and a chilling, erotic game of blurring psyches ensues.
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Then three loud knocks, rattling the entire house. A woman's
cough. I am rooted to the upstairs landing; sensing, knowing it is her.
Above me, a light bulb hums; the house cocks its hostile ear.
cough. I am rooted to the upstairs landing; sensing, knowing it is her.
Above me, a light bulb hums; the house cocks its hostile ear.
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brilliantly unsettling,
By Cottswold Ommony (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mirror, Mirror (Paperback)
To describe this perverse little work as romantic might seem itself perverse, but that, at heart, is what it is. Every one of these damaged characters has his or her agenda, but beyond this you sense a desperate search for connection. Sad and sexy are odd bedfellows, but that's what Maria Alvarez offers us, and the result is unexpectedly touching.
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This review is from: Mirror, Mirror (Hardcover)
This is one of the best books I've read this year. Creepy and compelling and spooky as a David Lynch film. (My hero). Really recommend it.
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