The Eye of the Beholder

Margie Orford

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Cora
carries secrets her daughter can't know.

Freya
is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.

Angel
will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.

Angel is working in a wolf sanctuary in Canada when an abandoned dog is
brought in - a dog she knows. The dog's owner is missing, but has he been caught out in a blizzard or has something more sinister caught up with him?

Cora is running from a dangerous man. Attempting to bury her emotions (fear and
anguish) in her art has brought her controversy all her career, but the truth behind her paintings could expose more than a model.

Freya is close with her mother but trying to build a life of her own. While searching
for answers, she has her own reasons for trying to unearth her mother's history.

One act of violence sets the three women on a collision course, each desperate to
find the truth. In a nail-biting thriller set between the scorched red soil of South Africa, the pitiless snowfields of Canada and the chilly lochsides of western Scotland, each woman must contend with the spectres of male violence, sexual abuse and the choices we each make to keep our souls.

Book Details

Publisher: Canongate Books
Publish Date: Sep 6th, 2022
Pages: 320
Language: English
Edition: Main - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 1.50in - 0.95lb
EAN: 9781838856809
Categories: • Thrillers - Suspense• Women• World Literature - Canada - 21st Century

About the Author

Orford, Margie: - Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist who has been dubbed the Queen of South African Crime Fiction. Her Clare Hart crime novels have been translated into ten languages and are being developed into a television series. She was born in London and grew up in Namibia. A Fulbright Scholar, she was educated in South Africa and the United States, has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and is an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. She is president Emerita of PEN South Africa and was the patron of Rape Crisis Cape Town while she lived in South Africa. She now lives in London.

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Praise for this book

A tale of love and abuse that is as powerful as it is elegant - and it grips like a vice, too--IAN RANKIN

Praise for Margie Orford: Margie Orford is a name you should commit to memory-- "O, Oprah Magazine"

Wonderfully crafted and fully engrossing--MICHAEL CONNELLY

Margie Orford is world-class. This is crime writing at its very best--DEON MEYER

Orford has a rare ability to get under the skin of the genre's conventions-- "Irish Times"

Orford truly understands the transformative power of violence for those who survive it and those who visit it upon others. It gives her writing visceral power.--DAMIAN BARR

The acclaimed 'Queen of Crime fiction' in South Africa takes a further step into the dark. The result is as compelling as it is frightening and deeply thought provoking. The Eye of the Beholder is sure to play a key role in the ongoing debate about what women and men are, and can be, for each other in these violent times.--JACQUELINE ROSE

Utterly brilliant. Gorgeous, unflinching and a total surprise

Superstar Margie Orford's writing has garnered acclaim everywhere . . . Her writing is cinematic, powerful and so close to the bone it almost cuts

Margie Orford gives genre writing swagger, she makes it look good . . . every detail convinces. Every sentence is clipped, pared down, muscular, every emotion captured with poise and precision-- "Slipnet"

Margie Orford invented the genre and mastered it

A hard-hitting, affecting novel about women who refuse to allow men off the hook-- "Irish Times"

A subtle, confrontational and disturbing read . . . mirrors contemporary society in a thought-provoking way

A fascinating, terrifying work focused on the power and destructive nature of the male gaze-- "news24, South Africa"

Chilling and somewhat complex, curling like a snake around your heart! . . . The story flows like an urgent river, and brings us into the heart of the world that only recently has been rocked by the #Metoo campaign . . . Powerful-- "IOL"

A stunner-- "The Big Thrill"

Insight, intrigue and devastating impact . . . at the heart of Beholder are secrets, damaging love and complex mother-daughter relationships-- "Sunday Times, South Africa"

Focuses our gaze on secrets, obsession and intergenerational trauma . . . an exquisite work of art-- "Daily Maverick"

Ultimately a novel about sexual violence . . . But both the villainy of the abuse endured by the women and the stark violence of the revenge ring disturbingly true-- "Spectator Australia"

A suspenseful and wise study of surviving sexual abuse and trauma. Orford's prose is piercingly beautiful

Subtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary. Margie Orford has a quietly understated, beautiful literary style