This gripping, provocative new novel by one of Australia's finest writers is a psychological thriller for the modern age, one which explores the snares of money and love, and the dark side of erotic imagination. Please see Wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. A good friend lent it to me the other day, and needing a break from a particularly gut-twisting book, I picked this one up. 2012, The engagement / Chloe Hooper Penguin Group Australia Melbourne, Victoria. THE ENGAGEMENT Author: Chloe Hooper Hamish Hamilton RRP 29.99 Review: Monique Mulligan I wasn’t expecting to review this book. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and realises a different game has begun. The engagement / Chloe Hooper Penguin Group Australia Melbourne, Victoria 2012. Or so she thinks.Īcross the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. It was about a young teacher who while pursuing an affair with a pupils father becomes obsessed with his wifes novelised account of a local murder, in. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies - and helps pay her debts. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. The Engagement is a taut psychological thriller in which.

Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, now works at her uncle's real-estate business in Melbourne. From Chloe Hooper, author of the phenomenal The Tall Man, comes a brilliant novel about sex and money. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral dynasty, at his property in western Victoria. The Engagement is a taut psychological thriller in which the deft blurring of reality and dark fantasy rivals that of Luis Bunuel's classic Belle de Jour.

From Chloe Hooper, author of the phenomenal The Tall Man, comes a brilliant novel about sex and money. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral.

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