Books
Book review: The Guest invites us to see the world through the eyes of a female grifter
American writer Emma Cline tells a compelling story of an ex-call girl and emotional manipulator, who uses and abuses her rich prey mercilessly
We make on average 35,000 decisions a day. Most are inconsequential, but for precarious lives they are necessary to survival.
In the American writer Emma Cline’s second, rather spellbinding novel, we follow a former escort called Alex and get to know her way of seeing the world intimately. Yet her origins remain mysterious. I was trying to understand what makes this story so hypnotic, and then I realised we’re completely zeroed in on Alex’s consciousness ...
