The Guest: The dark, addictive novel from the Booker-prize longlisted author of Switzy

Name: The Guest: The dark, addictive novel from the Booker-prize longlisted author of Switzy
Rating: 3.4166667461395264 (12 reviews)

Emma Cline

May 2023 · Random House

12 reviews

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The Booker-prize longlisted author of Switzy
'The tension never wavers' Guardian
‘Sultry and engrossing’ Observer

Summer's almost over and Alex is no longer welcome...

Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the older man she’s been seeing.

After one misstep at a dinner party she’s dismissed with a ride to the station and a ticket back to the city. But Alex decides to stay on the island, charming her way into the lives of the dazzlingly wealthy set who live there and leaving a trail of destruction behind her. Just how long can she keep going before she’s found out?

‘A delicious, dark-sided novel’ Guardian
‘Eerily captivating’ Elle
‘Compulsively readable’ Independent

The Booker-prize longlisted author of Switzy 'The tension never wavers' Guardian ‘Sultry and engrossing’ Observer Summer's almost over and Alex is no longer welcome... Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend Augu...

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12 reviews

Catherine Foster

July 8, 2024

Another book where the author can't write an ending and decides to just finish part way through as if that's a clever or mysterious thing to do.

M&C Reynolds

July 13, 2024

Stylish and spare. The gloss of the prose hides a chaotic desperation just below the surface. Sleek yet tense this new novel demonstrates the talent of an author in complete control.

Jennet

May 23, 2023

About the author

Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. Cline's stories have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from the Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. Cline's stories have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from the Paris Review and w...

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