Europia
by Anthony Etherington
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Pub Date 28 May 2022 | Archive Date 6 Mar 2023
The Book Guild | Book Guild Publishing
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Description
Caradea, Eastern Europe, Spring 2030. Marta Ionescu, thirty-four and single, lives alone on the run-down Goval estate. She has good friends, a secure job and runs a popular youth club. But with her elderly mother growing increasingly fragile and her boyfriend, Arpad, frequently absent and drinking heavily, Marta’s optimism is fading fast. Worse, she has discovered a series of photographs that suggest Arpad might be involved in sex-trafficking.
Her dream of settling down and having children in limbo, Marta decides to look elsewhere for the husband of her dreams. But Arpad does not take his rejection kindly and when Marta agrees to help newly widowed Michael Brancusi with his troubled teenage daughter Steffi, she sets off a chain of events that threatens the people and things she loves and, ultimately, her own life.
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Written by a European Independent Film Festival and International Film Festival of Wales award winner.
An intriguing thriller-mystery set in a Europe of the future, with threads of romance woven into the plot.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781915352491 |
| PRICE | £4.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 200 |
Featured Reviews
Janalyn P, Reviewer
Marta is 32 in single, she loves her job and the work she does with the local sports club. She also loves spending time with her rich boyfriend, Arpod or at least she did until one night while looking at pictures of the nighttime meds she runs across ones of a local woman who is missing. When her boyfriend tells her she must keep a secret and that secret is he works for the police and think this woman is involved in sex trafficking she doesn’t know if she believes him when he showed up at her apartment unannounced and drunk she really starts to doubt her fondness for him but when she tries to break it off her real trouble begins. This book was so good that it one part although I was laying in my bed listening I had to sit up and wait till it was over because my heart was palpitating so much. She has a lot to protect her mom and aunt who are elderly in the widow with the 15-year-old daughter everything she holes dear let’s threaten from the insanity of her ex and OMG he is insane. This book was given to me by NetGalley and the author but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review but all opinions are definitely my own.
Edna G, Reviewer
Europia
by Anthony Etherington
My Thanks to NetGalley, The Book Guild, and Anthony Etherington for the advance to review.
I do not know how to really rate this one. It is a mystery set in the future. The Language had me
trying to understand some. This is my fault, not the writer. I am just not good with the new wroding.
So, I will give it a solid 4 stars.
Aria H, Reviewer
The writing was good, the story was interwsting and the characters were well developed. An enjoyable read.
Robin P, Reviewer
This novel has the style and tone of the early Roman Polanski films. In fact it wouldn't look out of place on Alfred Hitchcock's C.V. The author's screenwriting experience has certainly paid off in this debut novel.
The story unfolds a few years in the future in a dark and claustrophobic Europe. Events unfold at a leisurely pace allowing each act of violence to have maximum impact. The characters all seem to exist in a lonely state of near isolation. Tragedy, terror, and deceit must happen before friendship and love can flourish. A tour de force of originality and literary integrity. Tense and evocative.
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