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Burning Angel and Other Stories

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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 naïve 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.

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Authors:
Osborne, Lawrence
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781781090824
Number of Pages:
352
Publication Date:
03/08/2023
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Year Published:
2023
Place of Publication:
London
Language:
English
Imprint:
Hogarth
SKU:
9781781090824

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