Ebook {Epub PDF} Her by Harriet Lane

"In her captivating new novel, HER, Harriet Lane crafts a tale of suspense that seeps slowly and inevitably between the cracks of two otherwise ordinary lives. Writing with a quiet confidence and an eye for the most perfect details, Ms. Lane lures her readers into the lives of Nina and Emma, two women at opposite ends of raising a family. Ms/5().  · The minutiae of everyday life turn sinister for two women in this taut, fraught tale. In her sophomore novel, Lane (Alys, Always, ) alternates between the perspectives of Nina and Emma, two something women who’ve taken different routes through motherhood. Both Nina and her second husband have teenage daughters from their first marriages, but except for a bit of adolescent . Her by Harriet Lane. This is a really great, creepy thriller. Nina recognizes Emma on the street from when they were teenagers more than 20 years before, but Emma has no idea who Nina is. Nina then insinuates herself into Emma's life, by pretending to be friendly and kind, but with underhand, sinister motives.

Her: A Novel by Lane, Harriet and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Author Bio Harriet Lane is the British author of Alys, Always () and Her (). Previously, she worked as an editor and staff writer at Tatler and the www.doorway.ru also has written for the Guardian, Telegraph and www.doorway.ru an autoimmune disorder began to impair her eyesight, Lane gave up her full-time career in journalism and eventually took up fiction writing. 'Harriet Lane is a deft conjurer of menacing middle-class scenarios. Her debut earned comparisons with Patricia Highsmith and Anita Brookner In Her, a taut revenge drama, the same events are recounted in alternate chapters from the separate perspectives of two women in their late 30s who have met by apparent accident .

"On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina--sophisticated, generous, effortlessly in control--seems to have all the answers. It's easy to see why Emma is drawn to Nina. But what does Nina see in her? A seemingly innocent friendship slowly develops into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Her is a beautifully put together novel which fans of Deborah Levy’s Swimming Home or Helen Walsh’s The Lemon Grove will enjoy.’ We Love This Book ‘Harriet Lane’s first novel Alys, Always was widely praised for combining sharply observed everyday life with something a lot more sinister. Harriet Lane’s second novel “Her” is a horribly cruel, creepy little novel that leaves one with a sour aftertaste and a heart full of hatred and disgust for humanity. It is, nevertheless, an edge-of-the-seat page-turner and a sharp examination of the almost-invisible and subtleyet viciousmisogyny that some women exhibit toward other women.