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The Comfort of Strangers

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The Comfort of Strangers

Written by: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
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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. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense

Critic Reviews

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