Dance With Me
The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2014
256 pages
978-1-4711-3625-2 (ISBN)
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The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD, also a hit BBC series starring Emily Watson
A man dies a week after rewriting his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. Confused with her newfound inheritance, Bet investigates Peter's past and discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed…
In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings. Somebody taps at her door. But there's no one there. In the basement of the office, something unpleasant is lurking ...
What connects these two women and can they ever escape it?
PRAISE FOR LOUISE DOUGHTY:
'Dance With Me is a book dotted with vivid observational set pieces, cunningly slotted together...Doughty is a good writer, deft with observational details...This book does dance with you. It holds you, leads you, and twirls you about.' LYNNE TRUSS, SUNDAY TIMES
'Louise Doughty writes about people who don't usually get written about...every bit as skilled as her contemporaries, her writing has a pessimistic edge which makes her books all the funnier. Dance With Me is a painfully accurate record of mating rituals and dating nightmares' INDEPENDENT
'A thriller, a bit of a ghost story, and a love story. It has pace, style, mystery, excitement' EVENING STANDARD
A man dies a week after rewriting his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. Confused with her newfound inheritance, Bet investigates Peter's past and discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed…
In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings. Somebody taps at her door. But there's no one there. In the basement of the office, something unpleasant is lurking ...
What connects these two women and can they ever escape it?
PRAISE FOR LOUISE DOUGHTY:
'Dance With Me is a book dotted with vivid observational set pieces, cunningly slotted together...Doughty is a good writer, deft with observational details...This book does dance with you. It holds you, leads you, and twirls you about.' LYNNE TRUSS, SUNDAY TIMES
'Louise Doughty writes about people who don't usually get written about...every bit as skilled as her contemporaries, her writing has a pessimistic edge which makes her books all the funnier. Dance With Me is a painfully accurate record of mating rituals and dating nightmares' INDEPENDENT
'A thriller, a bit of a ghost story, and a love story. It has pace, style, mystery, excitement' EVENING STANDARD
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Louise Doughty
Dance With Me
The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD
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03/2014
Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Louise Doughty is the author of five novels, CRAZY PAVING, DANCE WITH ME, HONEY-DEW, FIRES IN THE DARK and STONE CRADLE. CRAZY PAVING was shortlisted for four awards including the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and FIRES IN THE DARK won awards from the Arts Council of England and the K.Blundell Trust. She is also a recipient of an Ian St. James prize and a Radio Times Drama Award. She has written five plays for radio and worked widely as a journalist and broadcaster in London, where she lives.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for Louise Doughty
- Also by Louise Doughty
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Epigraph page
- Contents
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