The Exit - Softcover

FitzGerald, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571287891 ISBN 13: 9780571287895

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2015

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Rose Prince is an 82-year-old children's author who has stumbled upon some sinister goings-on in her care home. The problem is that as she's suffering from dementia, nobody will believe her. Elizabeth is Missing covers some of the same territory but The Exit is, if anything, even better, both poignant and funny. (Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express)

Dark, intelligent and thought-provoking, The Exit is one of those books that stays with you long after the last page. Helen Fitzgerald is fast becoming one of my favourite writers. (James Carol, author of Broken Dolls)

In many way this is a perfect psychological thriller - smart, funny and ultimately very disturbing. (crimefictionlover.com)

FitzGerald's world is so real you feel like you're living in it already. There is a moral ambiguity to every situation - her good characters are never wholly good, her bad characters are never completely bad. The realism of her fictional universe and the empathy with which she depicts her cast of characters are key to the emotional engagement of the reader. As funny and messy and heartbreaking and horrible as real life can be, The Exit is a thriller for our times. (Doug Johnstone Independent on Sunday)

A memorably unsettling read. (Joan Smith, Sunday Times)

FitzGerald has created two characters you'll root for. (Eva Dolan, Metro)

A clever, perceptive novel. (Literary Review)

An astonishingly powerful novel that deals beautifully with some serious issues - family, memory, growing up and growing old - before delivering a sucker punch that will leave you reeling. Helen FitzGerald is not afraid to take the reader into some very dark places and cements her growing reputation as one of the most daring and readable authors working today. The Exit is a masterpiece. (Mark Edwards, author of The Magpies)

FitzGerald's experiences in social work lend her novels piercing insight and breathtaking authenticity and when these are harnessed to a creative imagination, the result is chilling, absorbing storylines littered with disturbing truths, dark humour and spine-tingling tensions...Trapped in a vortex of suspense, mystery and revelation, readers will discover there is only one way out of The Exit... and that is to read to the very last page. (Lancashire Evening Post)

FitzGerald brings a real authenticity to both women's voices ... Powerful and moving - almost unbearably so in places (although it never descends into anything cloying; there is just the right amount of cynicism and grit mixed in with the sentiment here, and every single bit rings true) - and frequently laugh-out-loud funny ... A superb book. (Steve Mosby, author of Dark Room)

Reseña del editor

Some people love goodbyes... 23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting, but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother puts her foot down - and soon discovers that her new workplace contains many secrets. One of the residents at the home, 82-year-old Rose, is convinced that something sinister is going on in Room 7 and that her own life is under threat. But Rose has dementia - so what does she actually know, and who would believe her anyway? As Catherine starts investigating Rose's allegations, terrible revelations surface about everyone involved. Can Catherine find out what's really going on before it's too late?

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571287891
• ISBN 13: 9780571287895
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320