The Woman Upstairs: ' Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar' New York Times Book Review

Name: The Woman Upstairs: ' Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar' New York Times Book Review
Rating: 4.142857074737549 (7 reviews)

Claire Messud

Apr 2013 · Hachette UK

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY
'Messud is a breathtaking writer . . . a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen.

One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's father has a fellowship at Harvard and his mother is a glamorous and successful installation artist. Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. Liberation from her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.

'Riveting . . . Messud is adept at evoking complex psychological territory'NEW YORKER

'Messud's prose is a delight . . . addictive, memorable, intense' LIONEL SHRIVER, FINANCIAL TIMES

'This is a faultless, suspenseful novel'MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Quietly menacing'GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY 'Messud is a breathtaking writer . . . a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, emplo...

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About the author

Claire Messud was born in 1966 and was educated at Yale and at Cambridge. She is the author of three novels including The Emperor's Children, a New York Times bestseller, and two novellas. She lives in Boston with her husband and their two children.

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