Disturbance
by Marianne Kavanagh
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Pub Date 21 Mar 2019 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2019
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Description
You don't know what's going on in Sara's house... Or in her head.
Sara is lonely. No one talks to her - not even her bad-tempered workaholic husband or her two beloved sons. Her solace is her house, the biggest in the village, hidden away behind high hedges.
Then she strikes up a friendship with Katie, a college student living nearby, and a new world opens up. Her neighbours have been dying to get to know her, and they rush to help when Sara is devastated by a terrible accident.
But nothing is quite what it seems. And when new betrayals and shocking revelations disturb her peace, Sara realises she has no choice: she must act to protect the safety of those she loves.
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'So subtly done, and well achieved, and horrifyingly, hilariously believable - just the blackest of delights.' Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell
'A massively enjoyable book - creepy, funny, surprising and absolutely unputdownable... My only wish is that I hadn't finished it so quickly.' Daisy Waugh
'I raced through it. Dark, tense and very twisty.' Tamsin Grey, author of She's Not There
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781473639379 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews
Brian K, Reviewer
In Marianne Kavanagh's Disturbance nothing is quite what it seems. Violence lurks beneath the apparently tranquil surface of English village life, friendship shades into possessiveness, and the past gets rearranged to fit the demands of the present
It's a carefully crafted story. The reader suspects that someone is not telling the truth, but it takes a while before it becomes clear who is fooling whom. The picture only emerges bit by bit, like the slow dripping of a wound. The result is a chilling study of an obsessive and manipulative individual.
But its the voices that makes this novel so effective – floating above the brittle normality of middle class life, passing on rumours, testing assumptions, drawing conclusions, but never quite understanding the full horror of the destructive force that has buried itself like a parasite within the community.
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