The Hours Before Dawn
(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
Publishing Details
The Hours Before Dawn
By (Author) Celia Fremlin
Afterword by Chris Simmons
Foreword by Laura Wilson
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
26th July 2017
1st February 2024
Main - Re-issue
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Comic (humorous) crime and mystery
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 130mm, Height 200mm, Spine 15mm
220g
Description
Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine.
Or would it What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real What could she do, and would anyone even believe her Maybe, if she could get just get some rest, she'd be able to think straight.
Author Bio
Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960. Over the next thirty-five years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles.
