Tony and Susan
By (Author) Austin Wright
Atlantic Books
Atlantic Books
23rd May 2018
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Paperback
384
371g
The car shrieked and stopped. Around its red and white light a cloud of smoke rose and dissolved. A door opened. A man got out, stood at the edge of the shoulder, looked back, a shadow, indistinguishable.
Fifteen years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband: a manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime, of an ambush on the highway, and of a secluded cabin in the woods. It is a thrilling chiller of death and corruption, written by the man she once loved. Why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message ...
A superb and thrilling novel... Extraordinary * Ian McEwan *
Tony and Susan is unbeatable * Observer *
Impressive, enigmatic, multi-layered * Sarah Waters *
Astute, cunning and thrilling... This is one lost novel that deserves to be found by a whole new generation of readers * Independent on Sunday *
A masterful study of marriage, regret and the reader's role. * Financial Times *
A f***king masterpiece. I wish that Wright was still alive so that I could tell him so... It's going to become a living, breathing, knock-out classic. Astonishing. * M J Hyland *
Marvellously written - the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful. * Saul Bellow *
Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved it... Unforgettable. * Ruth Rendell *
Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.