Synopsis
Brendan and Sherilyn. A young couple in love. Each has met their soul mate, and nothing can come between them.
In fact, the Gutteridges are so wrapped up in each other that their neighbours barely know them, despite the woman next door’s nosy curiosity. Their families and their work colleagues see only the perfect couple in the perfect home, the perfect car crouching in the drive.
And then a baby is born – contaminating this pristine life in which there is only room for two. But they find the ideal solution.
What may be one couple’s happy ending is everyone else’s indescribable nightmare…
Told through the Gutteridges’ voices, and those of their families, neighbours, and those who will come across them in the aftermath, this perverse love story hurtles to the heart of evil - the evil that could be anyone’s next door neighbour.
Reviews
Customer Review: 21 March 2008
Reviewer: Mirela Manaj
A marvellous first novel... It's a book that really sweeps you away from the first page till the last, and you will finish it in no time. What I found very interesting, was the way it was structured, by page 12, we know the full story, Gutteridges' four-year-old daughter Samantha is dead; her parents had locked her in a cage and left her to die. You are left puzzled, wondering what next? Then you read the testimonies, mostly monologues, by people affected by the Gutteridges' monstrous crime. The book is written in such an amazing way, that you feel like you could almost be a resident of that part of the world. I had to underline some paragraphs, as I felt that I knew some of the characters. It is certainly not the type of book that I would usually choose to read, but I loved it. It is a page turner with complex characters and situations. A great book by many measures. I highly recommend this book, for those of you who are not in a reading group, read it and then loan it to a friend. You are going to want to talk about it when you finish!
» Submit a reviewCritic Review:
‘A novel about a young couple who keep their unwanted child in a cage…would never be an uplifting read. Yet psychoanalyst Carol Topolski has avoided writing a gratuitous horror story. A multi-stranded narrative explaining the background…disturbing, intelligent, the all-consuming psychosis at its heart never glamorised by the author.’
Guardian
Product details
Format : Hardback
ISBN: 9781905490264
Size : 153 x 234mm
Pages : 272
Published : 31 Jan 2008
Publisher : Fig Tree
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