Devotion
Published on 1. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-571-34908-1 (ISBN)
Description
'Sexy-but-literary' Sunday Times
'Complex and psychologically taut' Observer
'Sensual and unsettling' The Scotsman
'[A] literary psychological smoulderer' Metro
Desire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.
Ella is 26, lonely, hungry and far from home. Lonnie is also 26, but rich, talented and beautiful - with a husband and son to match.
Their fates intertwine the day Ella is hired as the family's nanny. She finds herself mesmerised by Lonnie's girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage, but soon resentment grows too.
Crackling with sensuality and suspense, Madeline Stevens's debut novel is a dizzying thriller in which roles are confused and reversed and nothing is ever quite as it seems.
'Complex and psychologically taut' Observer
'Sensual and unsettling' The Scotsman
'[A] literary psychological smoulderer' Metro
Desire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.
Ella is 26, lonely, hungry and far from home. Lonnie is also 26, but rich, talented and beautiful - with a husband and son to match.
Their fates intertwine the day Ella is hired as the family's nanny. She finds herself mesmerised by Lonnie's girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage, but soon resentment grows too.
Crackling with sensuality and suspense, Madeline Stevens's debut novel is a dizzying thriller in which roles are confused and reversed and nothing is ever quite as it seems.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-34908-1 (9780571349081)
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Madeline Stevens has worked as a nanny in New York City for seven years. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and was mentored by novelist Lidia Yuknavitch. She founded the Sundays at Erv's reading series in Brooklyn and has been invited to read at series including The Freya Project, Dead Rabbits, and Columbia Selects at KGB bar.