The Visitors by Catherine Burns

The Visitors by Catherine Burns

Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop. The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable. --Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue's Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, Catherine Burns's debut novel explores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.

Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door.and turning a blind eye to the women's laundry in the hamper that isn't hers. For years, she's buried the signs of John's devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind--until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret. Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn't the only one with a dark side.

Catherine Burns is a lecturer at Griffith University's School of Languages and Linguistics in Australia. Gender studies, Japanese law and popular culture, and feminist jurisprudence are among her study interests.

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ISBN 13	9781501164019
ISBN 10	1501164015
Title	The Visitors
Author	Catherine Burns
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Gallery/Scout Press
Year published	2017-09-26
Number of pages	304
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