In the Dark

Author: Moggach, Deborah

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 08-04-2008

Part Number: 9780099507123

Details: Product Description


From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son, Ralph, and their maid, Winnie. Struggling to keep herself, her lodgers, and her son going as every day life vanishes in the face of war, Eithne’s world is transformed by the arrival of Mr Turk, the virile, carnal, carnivorous local butcher who falls passionately in love with her. As the house bursts to life with the electricity – metaphorical and real – he brings, dark secrets come to light…


Review


From the first perfect sentence this novel is a gem. Its pared sentences and vocabulary really capture the time ―
Evening Standard

The Moggacch miracle continues- here's another vivid, gripping yarn from the author of
Tulip Fever... with a plot as twisty as a mountain road ―
The Times

This wartime novel of ordinary Londoners is atmospheric and buzzing with electricity... a spirited portrait of lives thrown into turmoil by the Great War ―
Daily Express

Like the recent novels by Ian McEwan and Sarah Waters,
In the Dark successfully modernises the past. By focusing on life's murkier undercurrents... the characters come to seem appealingly familiar -- Sophia Harrison ―
Sunday Times

A thoughtful diligent writer ―
Sunday Telegraph


About the Author


Deborah Moggach is the author of many successful novels including
Tulip Fever and
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was made into a top-grossing film starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Her screenplays include the film of
Pride and Prejudice, which was nominated for a BAFTA. She lives in Wales.

EAN: 9780099507123

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English