· The Night Guest Ms. McFarlane is a gifted writer to be sure, and I was swept up in the freshness and beauty of her writing as soon as I read the first few pages. I purchased the book on the strength of the sample that was provided. Somewhere around the middle it began to go in what I'll simply call another direction/5(39). · The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane – review There is clarity and compassion in this distinctive tale of memory and identity, set at the far end of life Something coming towards her Author: Justine Jordan. The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane's hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn't be.
A deeply interior literary thriller--subtle and swift and fragile., The Night Guest is an extraordinary novel. At once a tender thriller and an exquisitely constructed meditation on time and memory, it is propelled by sentence after sentence of masterful prose. With The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane announces herself as a writer to be read. In the tradition of recent psychological thrillers, Fiona McFarlane's new novel The Night Guest unwraps the breakdown of a woman's mind. Andrea Walker raves. The Night Guest is an impressive debut--a tender novel about old age and a psychological meditation on isolation--that moves with the curious pace of a mystery. Fiona McFarlane is a new voice that reads as if she has the experience of a familiar voice, like she's been with us all along.
Fiona McFarlane (born ) is an Australian author, best known for her book, The Night Guest and her collection of short stories, The High Places. She is a recipient of the Voss Literary Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Nita Kibble Literary Award. The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane. Publication Date: July 1, ; Genres: Fiction; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Faber Faber; ISBN ; ISBN The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane's hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn't be.
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