A Little Stranger
Will be published approx. on 1. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4088-2297-5 (ISBN)
Description
Daisy needs to hire a new nanny for her son; the efficient and capable Margaret Pride appears to be the perfect candidate. But as Daisy becomes increasingly removed from family life and the nanny becomes more prominent, oddities in Margaret's behaviour soon surface.
Masterfully constructed and crackling with tension, A Little Stranger reveals that self-deception can be just as dangerous as the deceit of others.
Masterfully constructed and crackling with tension, A Little Stranger reveals that self-deception can be just as dangerous as the deceit of others.
Reviews / Votes
'Compelling and unsettling ... McWilliam uses the conventions of middlebrow fiction to slice away its usual reassurance .. very funny too, a comedy of good manners in which each well-meaning utterance becomes a source of confusion and dismay' * Guardian * 'Sophisticated ... deadly accurate .. brilliantly contrived' * Times Literary Supplement * 'Poised, surprising, original .. McWilliam is a connoissuer of uneasiness' * London Review of Books * 'There is no doubt about the strength and originality of this talent' * Francis King, Spectator *More details
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Person
Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994), which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories Wait Till I Tell You (1997). In 2006 she began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became functionally blind as a result. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to enable her to open her eyelids.