* New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2016. * The Guardian 's «Not the Booker Prize» Shortlist. * Publishers Weekly's 'Big Indie Books of Fall 2016' [b]"Deeply satisfying. Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller. [ The Gloaming ] deserves major attention." —John Williams, New York Times </strong In rich, compelling prose, Melanie Finn perfectly captures a world of consequences, and the characters who must survive them. Pilgrim Jones'...
With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming— which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle—that had her doggedly pursuing a genocidal...
