The Engagement
Author(s): Chloe Hooper
From the author of the highly acclaimed A Child's Book of True Crime, "a brilliant, seductive, and unnerving first novel of sexual betrayal" (O, The Oprah Magazine), comes a dazzling, intense, and erotic second novel set in an isolated mansion in the country.
Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the handsome, well-mannered heir of an Australian pastoral dynasty, at his country seat some hours from Melbourne. Liese is English. She's come to Australia to work at her uncle's real-estate business and pay off her debts. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies--and her financial problems. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks.
Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander and realizes that a different game has begun.
Chloe Hooper's riveting and provocative new novel is a psychological thriller for the modern age, an exploration of the snares of money and love and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.198
- : 01 January 2014
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : 01 February 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Chloe Hooper
- : Paperback
- : 1402
- : 256
- : FH