
The Possession of Mr Cave by Matt Haig
By the author of Reasons to Stay Alive Terence Cave, the intellectual owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl, in love with her cello and her pony, and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's malign forces, whatever that may take. But as he starts to follow his grieving daughter's movements and enforce a draconian set of rules, his love for Bryony becomes a possessive force that leads to destruction and, ultimately, murder.
"Haig has hit upon a good idea structuring this as an open letter" * Metro *
"A compelling book; a page-turner in the best sense of the word, in that most suspense comes from character" -- John Burnside * Guardian *
"Anyone who has experienced the loss of someone they love will try to relate to the tricks the mind can play as they try to make sense of what has happenedA story I couldn't put down" * Essentials *
"A devastating portrait of one man's relentless self-destruction" * The Times *
"A compelling book; a page-turner in the best sense of the word, in that most suspense comes from character" -- John Burnside * Guardian *
"Anyone who has experienced the loss of someone they love will try to relate to the tricks the mind can play as they try to make sense of what has happenedA story I couldn't put down" * Essentials *
"A devastating portrait of one man's relentless self-destruction" * The Times *
Matt Haig is a British author for children and adults. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks. His children's novels have won the Smarties Gold Medal, the Blue Peter Book of the Year, been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal three times. His books have received praise from Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Patrick Ness, Ian Rankin and SJ Watson, among others. The Guardian summed up his writing as 'funny, clever and quite, quite lovely' by The Times and the New York Times called him 'a writer of great talent'.
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ISBN 13 | 9780099522959 |
ISBN 10 | 0099522950 |
Title | The Possession of Mr Cave |
Author | Matt Haig |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
Year published | 2009-05-07 |
Number of pages | 256 |
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