The Housekeeper

Informationen zum Autor Melanie Wallace was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, and now lives with her husband in Myloi, an agrarian village below the Ohi mountain range in Greece, and in Athens. Klappentext When Jamie Hall finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she can have no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. Tense, passionate and unflinching, this is a novel of tenderness and relentless momentum. Zusammenfassung When Jamie Hall finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she can have no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. An orphaned teenage runaway who has fetched up with only her dog and her backpack in the lonesome town of her grandparents' birth, Jamie becomes housekeeper to Margaret, a retired photographer. There she meets Galen, a trapper who now lives at a remove from life. Slowly, they come to realise that each has something the other craves. But when the feral boy released by Jamie sets out on a lethal spree, their dreams come under terrifying threat... Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Melanie Wallace
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.04.2008
• EAN: 9780099502494
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950249-4
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Thriller, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Suspense, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Seasonal interest: Winter, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’, United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary fiction