Breakfast with the Borgias
Pierre, D. B. C.
creator
author.
text
Suspense fiction.
enk
London
Hammer
2014
monographic
eng
248 pages ; 21 cm.
'Hell is other people.' It is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.
adult
D.B.C. Pierre.
Guesthouses
Fiction
Family secrets
Fiction
Secrets
Fiction
Essex (England)
Fiction
823.92
9780099586234 (hardback)
0099586231 (hardback)
UKMGB
140319
20150303163125.0
000053152882
eng