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by Julia Leigh (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (1 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571239994
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571239993
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 292,062 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Accompanied by two young children, Olivia has left a violent marriage and returned to her childhood home, an austere chateau surrounded by formal gardens. She considers herself to be already 'murdered', dead before dying. At the same time as this unannounced homecoming another couple are expected at the chateau: her brother Marcus and his wife Sophie are due back from the hospital with their newborn. In this brittle world of emotional control, everyone tries to hold themselves together as a tragic secret pushes them towards breaking point...A darkly mesmerising tale, "Disquiet" is disturbing, atmospheric, subtle and quite brilliant.

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Julia Leigh was born in Sydney in 1970. Her debut novel, The Hunter, has been published around the world and has won numerous awards. She was chosen by the Observer as one of twenty-one writers to watch in the millennium, and the New York Times selected her book as a 'Notable Book of the Year'.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, 14 Mar 2009
I agree with the previous review. The prose was great but I kept waiting for the storyline to start. I was anxious to establish a relationship with the characters but I couldn't get enough detail and wasn't able to identify with them. I continuously flipped to the last page of the book thinking that it can't be coming already and when it came an hour later...I felt a bit cheated.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Quiet Disappointment, 16 Nov 2008
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I loved Julia Leigh's debut novel, The Hunter, which won her many admirers all over the world, and it's been a long wait for her next book, Disquiet, a novella set in a country house in France in which Olivia, running with her two children from a violent marriage, and Marcus, arriving with his wife, Sophie, who has just suffered a stillbirth, join their mother, the widowed lady of the house, and her servants.

While the Hunter felt very modern in its setting and plotting, Disquiet is surprisingly old-fashioned, and alarm bells sounded for me when it took the first 5 pages of a very, very short book for the heroine to get through the door of the house. The prose is excellent, but the story is flimsy. The author creates an unsettling atmosphere surrounding the stillbirth (I won't spoil the effect by revealing more), yet I never felt it led anywhere. This read like a long short story rather than a short novel, mainly because of a disappointing shortage of ideas or events.
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