This Is The Water

Reviews / Votes

'A gifted storyteller with an unusual, hypnotic voice... truly original, it casts a spell that lingers in your mind' * Daily Mail * A dark, menacing book... a literary thriller of the highest order -- Julia Crouch THIS IS THE WATER is this year's GONE GIRL: unexpected, immersing, challenging and up-to-the-minute relevant. A must read -- Manda Scott 'The resulting intimacy you develop with each character takes this book beyond compelling into seriously addictive: you feel as they feel, be it fear, loss, longing or that most gripping of all feelings, love. Do not miss it' * Oprah.com * 'An upmarket thriller... Murphy is less interested in deviant psychology than in portraying everyday lives of quiet desperation, and in this she succeeds triumphantly' * Saturday Telegraph * 'An inventive thriller... Murphy proves skilful at generating a proper climate of dread, forcing us to focus our fears on the killer's next victim' * New York Times Book Review * 'A pulse-racing thriller' * Wall Street Journal * 'Obscenely suspenseful. . . . In Murphy's hands, the structure becomes almost hypnotic - and when the story hits full speed in the final quarter, the suspense becomes almost excruciating' * Publishers Weekly * Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behaviour * Dave Eggers * Magical and harrowing * Publishers Weekly (on HERE THEY COME) * A wonderful novel. Original, suspenseful, funny and profoundly moving.... I plan to recommend it to everyone I know * Geraldine Brooks (on THE CALL) * A hell of a book... It will haunt you * Frank McCourt *