A Pleasure and a Calling
by Phil Hogan
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Pub Date 12 Feb 2015 | Archive Date 23 Mar 2015
Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Black Swan
Description
You won’t remember Mr Heming. He showed you round
your comfortable home, suggested a sustainable financial package,
negotiated a price with the owner and called you with the good news. The
less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key.
That’s absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine?
The answer to that is, he has the keys to them all.
William
Heming’s every pleasure is in his leafy community. He loves and knows
every inch of it, feels nurtured by it, and would defend it - perhaps
not with his life but if it came to it, with yours...
A Note From the Publisher
Phil Hogan was born in a small northern mill town, and now lives in a small southern commuter town. He is married with four children and has been a journalist for 25 years.
Advance Praise
I loved A Pleasure and a Calling - gripping, sinister, original and brilliant! - Sophie Hannah
A wonderfully creepy novel, macabre and blackly comic with a deeply unsettling and original hero. - Rosamund Lupton
Very clever. A creepily alluring voice - Julia Crouch, author of Cuckoo and Tarnished
A wonderfully sinister fable of property and obsession - The Observer
Brims with wry wit and taut tension ... [and] delivers one surprise after another. - The New York Times
In terms of subject or style… Phil Hogan resembles John Updike or Richard Yates, figures from that classical seam of American fiction so rich in detail, domesticity, and murderous compromise. - Sunday Herald
One to watch: An eerie page-turner. - Bookseller
You’ll
definitely want to change your locks after reading this original and
darkly funny novel that will send shivers down your spine. - Stylist
Marketing Plan
We can only consider UK, European and Commonwealth requests for this title.
Brilliantly clever, simple and sinister hook
Urbane but sociopathic narrator - reminiscent of Highsmith's Mr Ripley
Brilliant nasty twist to life in a very familiar small town like one just near you...
Selected as Goldsboro's Book of the Month for March 2014
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780552779395 |
| PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
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