Transgressions

''Dunant triumphs, like all good novelists: in a deft, shrewd, precise use of killer detail'' CHRISTOBEL KENT, GUARDIAN''She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher . . . A tour de force of storytelling'' AMANDA FOREMAN''A writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts'' SIMON SCHAMATerrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant''s breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and female.Elizabeth Skorvecky has just come out of a long-term relationship with her boyfriend. Alone in her Victorian house, her only companions are her cat, a trashy crime novel she''s translating from Czech, and her music. As the summer ends and the days draw in, unsettling things begin to happen. First it''s just a missing CD, then music playing in an empty kitchen at midnight, then a table laid for breakfast for two. Poltergeist? Insanity?When Elizabeth wakes at four in the morning to find a man sitting at the end of her bed, she knows, sickeningly , she''s very sane - and being stalked. She also discovers that the means of surviving can be just as shocking as surrender.

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