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Cargando... Back to the Coast (2003)por Saskia Noort
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Alleenstaande moeder wordt door een onbekende achtervolgd en met de dood bedreigd Maria, een jonge alleenstaande moeder van twee kinderen, krijgt vlak nadat ze een zwangerschap vroegtijdig heeft beeindigd te maken met vreemde anonieme bedreigingen. Ze besluit met haar kinderen onder te duiken bij haar zus, die nog altijd in hun ouderlijk huis aan zee woont. Daar wordt Maria geconfronteerd met verdrongen jeugdherinneringen en beginnen haar dierbaren steeds meer aan haar geestelijke gezondheid te twijfelen. Intussen komt haar belager snel dichterbij ... This is the debut novel by Dutch author Saskia Noort. Maria, back-up singer and parent to two small children in Amsterdam, broke up with her partner, Geert, whose mental issues finally proved too much for her. She also had an abortion, feeling unequal to the task of raising three children and working without support. Immediately afterwards, she begins to receive threatening messages and it's clear she's being stalked. The police can't do anything. The stalker is clever enough to disguise their identity, and the harassment intensifies until Maria is frightened enough to leave Amsterdam. She's also worried that people don't believe her. The letters are destroyed. The things that happen are designed to look as though she was inventing the threats and she has no idea who she can trust. There is a lot that is promising in this book. Maria is an interesting character; prickly and slow to make friends, but loving to her children. She has a hard time asking for help or trusting those who offer her help. The idea of being stalked, and how doubts are raised about the target's perceptions makes for compulsive reading. However, [Back to the Coast] is too flawed a story to do justice to the ideas behind the plot. The stalker's identity is revealed too obviously, too often and too early to maintain suspense and what begins as a tale based in reality becomes more and more outrageous in the book's final pages. I loved the setting, a part of the Netherlands I have visited and I hope to give Noort another try with a later novel. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"A splendid job...Those who appreciate intelligent writing and emotionally plausible characters will be rewarded."--Publishers Weekly "Noort cranks up the tension with skill to produce a truly gripping nightmare."--Sunday Telegraph Praise forSaskia Noort: 'A mystery writer of the heart as much as of the mind, a balance that marks her work with a flesh-and-blood humanity.'--Andrew Pyper, author ofThe Wildfire Season "Affairs, deceit, manipulation, tax dodges and murder---there's nothing Noort shies away from stirring into the mix, nicely showing off the sinister side of the suburbs."--Time Out "While there are echoes ofDesperate Housewives here, this is closer to Mary Higgins Clark and is a good bet for her fans."---Library Journal Maria has money problems, two children from a failed marriage, and a depressive boyfriend. When she becomes pregnant, she decides not to keep the baby and then the letters start to arrive. Threatening letters, from pro-life activists she thinks at first, but then she begins to suspect others--even her own boyfriend. She flees to her sister's house, redolent with memories of a childhood she does not want to revisit. As the death threats follow her to her hiding place, Maria begins to fear not only for her life but for her own sanity. This is relentless suspense writing; it is a description of Maria's hellish descent into a world of induced paranoia that ends with a narrow escape from a carefully planned murder. Saskia Noort, born in 1967, is an acclaimed author of literary thrillers and international bestsellers. She has sold over a million copies of her first three novels and splits her time between the Netherlands and a Spanish island retreat. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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