The Comfort of Strangers

Author Ian McEwan
Narrator Alex Jennings
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 13 November 2014
Run Time 3 hours and 49 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

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Haunting and compelling

The Times

McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose

Observer

As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams and so is he

Guardian

Has you in its stranglehold from the first page to the last. McEwan has honed his prose style (always admirably spare) to tell his tale, and with all the skill of an accomplished torturer, he throws the occasional crumbs of comfort, as the tension becomes unbearable, only to snatch them away within moments

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