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The Comfort of Strangers

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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.

Critics Review

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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The Maestro
New Statesman
Author Ian McEwan
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 3 hours and 49 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473513945
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Psychological thriller
Availability AU, GB, IE

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