'A mesmeric study of a family, a scandal and a murder, set in Ceylon in the 1930s. (Booker judges, where were you?)' Hilary Mantel, Daily Telegraph
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia with her family in 1972. She has taught English at the University of Melbourne, as well as working as an editor and book reviewer. Her novels, The Rose Grower (1999), The Hamilton Case (2003) and The Lost Dog (2008) have been published across the world and translated into several languages. The Hamilton Case was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific, the Encore Award and the Tasmania Pacific Prize for Australian and New Zealand fiction. She lives in Melbourne.
A novel so delicious that you have to keep stopping as you read,
for fear of finishing too soon
*Sunday Telegraph*
A bewitching tale...an utterly captivating blend of intellectual
muscle and story-telling magic
*Independent*
Reminiscent of The Remains of the Day. De Kretser has given us the
classic whodunnit wrapped up in a beautiful and tragic literary
novel
*Vogue*
Haunting, lush and delicately nuanced
*Observer*
Rewarding, thought-provoking, witty and often disconcerting, the
novel takes the reader into a world of transformations - conjuring
a fiction which is tantalizingly vivid
*Times Literary Supplement*
A novel so delicious that you have to keep stopping as you read,
for fear of finishing too soon -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph
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A bewitching tale...an utterly captivating blend of intellectual
muscle and story-telling magic * Independent *
Reminiscent of The Remains of the Day. De Kretser has given
us the classic whodunnit wrapped up in a beautiful and tragic
literary novel * Vogue *
Haunting, lush and delicately nuanced * Observer *
Rewarding, thought-provoking, witty and often disconcerting, the
novel takes the reader into a world of transformations - conjuring
a fiction which is tantalizingly vivid * Times Literary Supplement
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