SUSIE BOYT THE SMALL HOURS PB
The Small Hours
By: Susie Boyt
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
ISBN/EAN:184408826X / 9781844088263
Format:Paperback
Pagination:224 pages
Dimensions:196 x 125 mm, 208 grams
Country of Pub.:United Kingdom
Pub Date:04/07/2013
Harriet Mansfield, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve. So she decides to open the school of her dreams.
To her precious little girls, rich in everything but care, she vows to provide the happiest childhoods in the world. For everyone knows that early years passed in delightful ways can set you up for life. But can this ambitious new departure spill some retrospective sweetness onto Harriet's own harsh beginnings, or better still cancel them out altogether? Will the family she's estranged from ever grant her the recognition she craves? Written with deep psychological insight and coal-black humour The Small Hours is a stunning meditation on love, self-love and forgiveness, and their shadowy opposites.
Darkly funny . . . You can't help wishing that everyone was a bit more like Harriet (Emma Herdman Marie Claire )
The Small Hours excites with refined delights . . . Boyt's economical prose remains elegantly polished, her descriptions of the subtleties of psychotherapy spine-tingling . . . A meaty yet accessible novel possessing great psychological rigour (Lucy Beresford Sunday Telegraph )
An unsettling yet absorbing story (Ben Felsenberg Metro )
Boyt weaves an engaging combination of psychological insight and piercing black humour to produce a thoroughly engaging, thought-provoking story (Mel Clarke The Lady )
An exquisitely written tale of a damaged woman attempting to mend her past with a grand gesture (Psychologies magazine )
