The Hours Before Dawn - by Celia Fremlin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is a republication of the work originally published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, in 1958"--Copyright page.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel <p/> One of CrimeRead's 10 Best Reissued Mysteries of 2018 <p/> In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, a young housewife with two lively daughters and an endlessly crying baby battles domestic chaos as well as growing suspicions of the household's new lodger. Are Louise's fears the product of sleep deprivation, as her unsympathetic husband suggests, or is there really something sinister about the respectable-seeming schoolmistress? <br> During the hours before dawn, Louise suspects, people with a precarious grip on sanity are likeliest to slip over the edge into madness -- especially if there's someone ready to give them a push. Without spilling a drop of blood, this psychological thriller transforms everyday events and settings into the extraordinary, evoking an atmosphere of sheer terror. Crime novelist Andrew Taylor hailed author Celia Fremlin as "Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith ... her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating -- and quite horribly chilling." <p/> "Fremlin is a major mistress of insight and suspense." -- <i>The New York Times</i> <br> "Highly intelligent entertainment, beautifully written with wit and humor." -- Frances Fyfield <p/> "It grips like grim death." -- <i>The Spectator</i> <p/> "A classic, lost in plain sight. <i>The Hours Before Dawn</i> is a book that should have a permanent spot within the spate of modern domestic suspense and psychological thriller titles that it inspired." -- Criminal Element<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>It grips like grim death.--<i>The Spectator</i><br>In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, young housewife Louise Henderson is saddled with an unsympathetic husband, two rambunctious daughters, and an endlessly crying baby--as well as growing suspicions of the household's new lodger, Vera Brandon. Are Louise's fears the simple product of sleep deprivation, or is there really something sinister about the respectable-seeming schoolmistress? <br>Without spilling a drop of blood, Celia Fremlin's classic psychological thriller transforms everyday events and settings into an atmosphere of sheer terror. <br>Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith ... her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating--and quite horribly chilling.--Andrew Taylor, bestselling Diamond Dagger-winning author</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) read classics and philosophy at Oxford's Somerville College. Her WWII experiences with the Mass Observation Project influenced her first book, <i>War Factory, </i> which reflected the attitudes of plant workers at a Wiltshire-based radar equipment factory. Fremlin wrote 16 novels in the course of four decades, in addition to a book of poetry and three volumes of collected stories. Her novel <i>The Hours Before Dawn </i>won the Edgar Award in 1960.
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