The Hours Before Dawn - Softcover

Fremlin, Celia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571338127 ISBN 13: 9780571338122

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

Discover the original psychological thriller...

Winner of the 1960 Edgar Award for best mystery novel

'A lost masterpiece.' PETER SWANSON

'A flawless masterclass in tension from the talented Ms Fremlin.' SARAH HILARY

Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine.

Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real? What could she do, and would anyone even believe her? Maybe, if she could get just get some rest, she'd be able to think straight.

In a new edition of this lost classic, The Hours Before Dawn proves - scarily - as relevant to readers today as it was when Celia Fremlin first wrote it in the 1950s.

About this title

About the Author:

Celia Fremlin (1914–2009) read classics and philosophy at Oxford's Somerville College. Her WWII experiences with the Mass Observation Project influenced her first book, War Factory, which reflected the attitudes of plant workers at a Wiltshire-based radar equipment factory. Fremlin wrote 16 novels in the course of four decades, in addition to a book of poetry and three volumes of collected stories. Her novel The Hours Before Dawn won the Edgar Award in 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571338127
• ISBN 13: 9780571338122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256