'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian "If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk." Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is an omen too. But fate doesn't work in the way that either of them expect. This novel of suspense and paranoia draws on Highsmith's own experience of being a stalker.
This is a better novel than Found in the Street by Highsmith and that one was quite good. This is gripping from the start and the characterisation is very real. The author does not shirk from the starkness of contemporary life but revels in it and the desperate angst of the characters makes the crime (which is yet to follow in this work as I have just started reading it) plausible and proximate. The book came in excellent physical condition and Atlantic Monthly Press does a great job with the...