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Author- Jensen Liz
About Author-Liz Jensen grew up in an Anglo-Danish-Moroccan home in Oxfordshire in Britain. Her critically-acclaimed work spans black comedy, science fiction, satire, family drama, historical fantasy and psychological suspense. Her novels Egg Dancing, Ark Baby and War Crimes for the Home received nominations for the Orange Women's Fiction Prize, and in 1998 Ark Baby was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award. She has worked as a teacher and creative writing consultant across Europe, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and developed for film and TV. The movie adaptation of her psychological suspense novel The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul, was released in 2016. She is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she shares her life with Carsten Jensen, author of We, the Drowned.
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A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious?
As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns, and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics.
Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.
Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks (11 April 2013)
- Language: English
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