Hours Before Dawn The (Celia Fremlin Mysteries) [Paperback]
Celia Fremlin FREMLIN (Author)
190 pages
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers (August 30, 2005)
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gothic in suburbia,
By X.L. (Noisy le sec, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hours Before Dawn The (Celia Fremlin Mysteries) (Paperback)
Celia Fremlin is one of the most underrated british mystery writers. She gave us near-twenty novels of a constant quality, sitting fear and nightmare in daily life, confrontating people next door to thrilling situations. "Hours", Edgar-winner for 1959, is one of her best works, often imitated (remember a Curtis Hanson movie, with Rebecca DeMornay...) but never equalled. Strenght of this book is the sharp observation of daily life of an housewife, her troubles with children, husband, insomnia... Powerfully written, plotted... A must.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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My All-time Favorite Book,
This review is from: Hours Before Dawn The (Celia Fremlin Mysteries) (Paperback)
I read this book about once a year because it is so delicious. It's a great "read", quick and funny, and it's also a very, very smart commentary on domestic life in the early sixties in the USA. You will watch an ever more exhausted mother of small children encounter every day life as well as mysterious happenings from the gauzy gaze of exhaustion.
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Bite Your Nails!,
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This review is from: The Hours Before Dawn (Mass Market Paperback)
If you are a student of seemingly minor social niceties and/or barbs you will thoroughly enjoy this tale of a woman who struggles to please her family, friends and neighbors while trying to ignore the signs of something bizarre happening. The play of the petty one-up-man-ship of the characters is superb and eminently believable in this depiction of an ordinary mother and wife living in England in the mid 1900s. The tension mounts slowly and remorselessly, culminating in a nerve-racking conclusion.
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