The Night Child: A Novel by Anna Quinn
By Anna Quinn
This breathtaking debut novel examines the influence of hectic formative years reviews and the delicate line among prior and current. Exquisitely nuanced and profoundly intimate, The evening Child is a narrative of resilience, wish, and the skill of the brain, physique, and spirit to avoid wasting itself regardless of all odds.
Nora Brown teaches highschool English and lives a quiet lifestyles in Seattle together with her husband and six-year-old daughter. yet one November day, moments after brushing aside her type, a girl’s face seems above the scholars’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on most sensible of shapeless drapes of purples and blues the place legs and arms must have been. Terror rushes via Nora’s body—the type of uncooked terror you are feeling whilst there’s no manner out, whilst each mobile on your physique, all your physique, is on fire—when you're thinking that chances are you'll die.”
Twenty-four hours later, whereas on Thanksgiving holiday, the face seems back. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and finally, a psychiatrist. because the tale progresses, a poor key's discovered—a mystery that pushes Nora towards an excellent deeper mental breakdown.
“Anna Quinn writes with vibrant and warranted authority, making this a amazing debut novel you won’t quickly omit. Her haunting tale, expertly and lovingly crafted, leaves you breathless with either terror and hope.”—Susan Wiggs, number 1 New York Times bestselling author
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