Burning Angel and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Osborne, Lawrence |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78109-083-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2023 |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia
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| Imprint: | Hogarth |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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'Brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES 'Compelling and unnerving' SPECTATOR **A NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year 2023** This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere -
and characters out of their depth A naive young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ruthless and disturbed pastor. A deaf girl...
More Description 'Brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES
'Compelling and unnerving' SPECTATOR
**A NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year 2023**
This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere - and characters out of their depth
A naive young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ruthless and disturbed pastor. A deaf girl hired as a maid by a wealthy New York couple turns the tables on her obliviously abusive employers and answers blackmail with blackmail. A psychiatrist treating a girl in rural England becomes ensnared in a love affair that threatens to destroy her career; while a young couple on holiday in Oman accidentally witness a killing, which leads to their being hunted as well. An entomologist at a remote hotel in the Andamans survives a tsunami and uses a dead body to further her study of ants.
Collected here for the first time, Lawrence Osborne's stories, like his novels - 'elaborate and intricately plotted dances macabres' (The Times) - feel like nightmares set against calmly and meticulously observed backgrounds. With their nods to Daphne du Maurier and Roald Dahl, these nine long-form stories explore characters lost in the shadowed borders between the mundane, the fantastical and the violence of the natural world.