Celia Fremlin

• 1960
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Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel"Highly intelligent entertainment, beautifully written with wit and humor." -- Frances Fyfield"It grips like grim death." -- The Spectator"Fremlin is a major mistress of insight and suspense." -- The New Yo...

• Dec-1980
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'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor With No Crying...

• Nov-1982
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'A truly funny, sharp comedy that is packaged inside a psychological thriller.' Spectator 'A delightful and masterly achievement.' Financial Times Celia Fremlin's twelfth novel, originally published in 1982, tells the tale of Martin Lockwood, a...

• Oct-1984
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• Apr-1985
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Rosamund and Geoffrey's new neighbor, Lindy, is smart, good-looking, friendly, and delightful in every way. The problem is Geoffrey's a little too delighted with her, and his wife is not happy about it. While Rosamund is in a feverish state from a bo...

• Nov-1985
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Clare Erskine thought it was a wonderful stroke of luck that her 19 year old daughter, Sarah, was engaged to marry an accountant. Sarah would live happily ever after and Clare pull ahead in the unspoken race that mothers run. But beneath the surface ...

• Apr-1986
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• Jan-1992
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When journalist Edwin Wakefield returns to England suspiciously unscathed by his Middle East captors, his two colleagues are still missing and presumed dead, but one returns safely and threatens to tell of Wakefield's fraudulent escape....

• Nov-1993
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Arnold Walter's job as caretaker and tour guide at a Tudor mansion becomes complicated by the arrival of his wayward daughter, Flora, and by the possible murder of Sir Henry Penrose, a senile octogenarian historian given to spontaneous bizarre behavi...

• Jan-1994
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"Beautifully played out to a startling and valid ending... Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense." -- TheNew York Times"Fremlin puts a keen edge on the reader's curiosity and keeps it there... the writing is so good th...

• Jan-2014
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Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark (1972) was the first gathering of Celia Fremlin's short fiction, a form in which she had published prolifically - for the likes of She, Playmen, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - while building her reputation as a no...

• Jan-2014
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Celia Fremlin's sixth novel Prisoner's Base (1967) served further proof of her mastery at uncovering anxieties and even terrors in the domestic sphere. It tells of grandmother Margaret, her daughter Claudia, and Claudia's daughter Helen, who share ...

• Jan-2014
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Seven Lean Years (1961) was Celia Fremlin's third novel of suspense. Its protagonist is Ellen Fortescue, engaged to be married, but oddly uneasy about her approaching wedding. Her fiance Leonard is a man of varying moods, most combustibly where the ...

• Jan-2014
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The Trouble-Makers (1963) was Celia Fremlin's fourth novel and - as Chris Simmons contends in his new preface to this Faber Finds edition - has a case to be considered among her very best. Katharine is a suburban housewife, desultorily unemployed, ...

• Feb-2014
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By Horror Haunted (1974) was Celia Fremlin's second collection of stories, and it runs the gamut of her many talents. The nightmarish plots, wit, elegance, and domestic details with an undertow of unease have lost none of their edge. 'Her Number On ...

• Feb-2014
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'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor The Long Sha...

• Mar-2014
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'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor Celia Fremlin's...

• Mar-2018
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Poor Mary. Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. All of the housewives on the block complain about their domineering husbands, their noisy children, and their dreary chore...

• Oct-2019
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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know.' A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley...

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'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor Appointment wi...

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After her husband leaves her, Alice Saunders becomes a resident of a quaint yet bizarre boardinghouse and before long finds herself drawn into a vortex of a frightening, possibly fatal chain of events...