The Eye of the Beholder

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A tale of love and abuse that is as powerful as it is elegant - and it grips like a vice, too -- IAN RANKIN Subtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary. Margie Orford has a quietly understated, beautiful literary style -- PETER JAMES Orford truly understands the transformative effect of violence for those who survive it and those who visit it upon others. It gives her writing visceral power -- DAMIAN BARR The acclaimed 'Queen of Crime fiction' in South Africa takes a further step into the dark. The result is as compelling as it is frightening and deeply thought provoking. The Eye of the Beholder is sure to play a key role in the ongoing debate about what women and men are, and can be, for each other in these violent times -- JACQUELINE ROSE A suspenseful and wise study of surviving sexual abuse and trauma. Orford's prose is piercingly beautiful -- KIM SHERWOOD Utterly brilliant. Gorgeous, unflinching and a total surprise -- FIAMMETTA ROCCO Margie Orford invented the genre and mastered it -- POPPY SEBAG-MONTEFIORE A hard-hitting, affecting novel about women who refuse to allow men off the hook -- DECLAN BURKE * * Irish Times * * A subtle, confrontational and disturbing read . . . mirrors contemporary society in a thought-provoking way -- Margaret Von Klemperer * * Sunday Times, South Africa * * An immersive and chilling experience that compels the reader to confront the rage and shame the victims feel . . . hard to put down, even as it makes your blood curdle -- Mamaputle Boikanyo * * Mail & Guardian * *