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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: 0241015324
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241015322
  • ASIN: 0571239994
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 366,301 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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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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1.0 out of 5 stars Craptacular, 18 Aug 2009
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A single mum arrives on the doorstep of a gothic mansion with her two young children in tow. She's exhausted and so will you be before the book's finished. The woman's brother's wife has given birth prematurely to a stillborn child which she still carries around with her in a blanket as if it's alive. The family gathers, sees this and is, duh, unsettled. Eventually they confront the grieving couple and the stillborn child is buried. The end.

It's a quick read, more like a novella, but boy is it dull. "Feelings" explored ambiguously (quotation marks because I never believed they were genuine), none of the characters are memorable, the dialogue I don't remember. An utterly forgettable book with something of a non-story with rubbish characters. Completely dull, give it a miss. A better gothic novel - "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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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4.0 out of 5 stars Stripped, spare and tightly controlled
Disquiet is short (121pp), very stripped, spare and tightly controlled. There is very little that might be said to involve the inside of people's heads. Read more
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