Why he'd ask her rather than a more recent acquaintance. She felt ashamed of her suspicions and objections. She didn't like to remember or slip back into that unpleasant frame of mind. It reminded her of too much and theatened the peace she had made with her past. Signed, "Your old Edward still remembering." Take your time, he said, scribble a few words, whatever pops into your head. She could help him too, for in spite of its merits he was afraid the novel lacked something. She was the best critic he ever had, he said.
He wanted to show her, let her read and see, judge for herself. How much he had learned about life and craft. Now in his letter he said, damn! but this book is good. It was touchy, her embarrassment, his resentment. He was a beginner and she a tougher critic than she meant to be. In the unrealistic days of their marriage there was a question whether she should read what he wrote. But she thought he had given up writing later when he went into insurance. It was the chief cause of trouble between them. She remembered he had wanted to write, stories, poems, sketches, anything in words, she remembered it well. He had written a book, a novel, and would she like to read it? Susan was shocked because, except for Christmas cards from his second wife signed "Love," she hadn't heard from Edward in twenty years. This goes back to the letter Susan Morrow's first husband Edward sent her last September.
Parts of it shocked me, and I am not easily shocked.” - Ruth Rendell “Absolutely terrifying, beautiful, and appalling. “Beautifully written, perfectly paced, impressively clever, and ultimately shocking in a way you never see coming.” - Nelson DeMille “A page-turner of a literary thriller.” - Sara Waters “A perfect and literary puzzle, an irresistible tale anout marriage and murder, both thriling and moving.” - Scott Turow “Compelling…mesmerizing…absolutely irresistible.”– New York Times “A superb and thrilling novel…extrodinary.” - Ian McEwan Tony and Susan is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. As the Hastings’ ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life.
And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield’s thriller. He writes asking her to read the book she was always his best critic, he says.Īs Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. Now, she’s enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor’s wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband’s first novel. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.
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