Hold / Kirsten Tranter.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, 2016.Description: 294 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781460751657
- Doppelgängers -- Fiction
- Doppelgängers -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Speculative fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Moving, Household -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Romance fiction
- Speculative fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | TRA | Available | 060056 |
A haunting, hypnotic and enticing novel of grief and desire, by one of Australia's finest, most assured novelists. Three years ago, Shelley's lover, Conrad, died in a surfing accident. Now, still in a state of subdued grief, Shelley has just moved into an old Victorian terrace in Paddington with David, her new partner, trying for a new beginning. At home one morning, Shelley discovers a door to a small intriguing room, which is not on the plans. There is a window, a fireplace and a beautiful chandelier. But nothing else. When Shelley meets a man who seems to be Conrad's uncanny double, the mysterious room begins to dominate her world, becoming a focus for her secret fantasies and fears, offering an escape which also threatens to become a trap. A waking dream of a novel, Hold is spellbinding, sensual and unsettling.