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Summer House with Swimming Pool

Herman Koch author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Published:3rd Jul '14

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Summer House with Swimming Pool cover

A doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy bestseller The Dinner

Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous.
When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he can't refuse. But by the time the suntans fade, Ralph Meier is dead.
The medical board accuses Marc of negligence.
Ralph's wife, however, accuses him of murder...

Horribly thrilling, utterly entertaining * Independent *
Gripping... The summer's essential reading * Observer *
Take this book to the beach, you'll be gripped and chilled * Independent *
Gripping... Koch uses language like a stethoscope, so that we can hear the beating hearts of his characters and their visceral feelings of envy, love, fear and hatred * Observer *
Sex and menace are at the pulsating heart of this emotionally intelligent thriller * Irish Mail on Sunday *
Caustic...Poisonous... I couldn't stop reading * Washington Post *
You'll wonder how far you would go for your children, and again you'll wonder what you might be capable of once the rules have been broken... Viciously funny, tense, and disturbing, this is one holiday you won't forget. -- David Vann

  • Long-listed for IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 (UK)

ISBN: 9781782390992

Dimensions: 178mm x 111mm x 26mm

Weight: 220g

416 pages

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