A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s
set debut mystery is a perfect summer read. 'A remarkably assured
debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation
behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian 'A clever and absorbing
debut by Inga Vesper, who bricks Joyce up in her perfect house,
then smashes it to pieces with aplomb' The Times ________
Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . . It's the
summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes,
California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long
afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife, mother, vanishes from her home,
leaving behind two terrified children and a bloodstain on the
kitchen floor. While the Haney's neighbours get busy organising
search parties, it is Ruby Wright, the family's 'help', who may
hold the key to this unsettling mystery. Ruby knows more about the
secrets behind Sunnylakes' starched curtains than anyone, and it
isn't long before the detective in charge of the case wants her
help. But what might it cost her to get involved? In these long hot
summer afternoons, simmering with lies, mistrust and prejudice, it
could only take one spark for this whole 'perfect' world to set
alight . . . A beguiling, deeply atmospheric debut novel from the
cracked heart of the American Dream, The Long, Long Afternoon is at
once a page-turning mystery and an intoxicating vision of the ways
in which women everywhere are diminished, silenced and ultimately
under-estimated. Everyone is talking about The Long, Long Afternoon
'Beguiling and evocative. This vivid and atmospheric pageturner
will keep readers guessing all the way to its satisfying finale'
Sunday Express 'Beautifully crafted, claustrophobic and compelling.
As delicious as a long drink on a hot day' Stacey Halls, Sunday
Times bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling 'Such a
vivid atmosphere of stifling LA heat and stifling 50s domesticity'
Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures 'Breathtakingly stylish,
hypnotic and masterfully gripping' Chris Whitaker, author of We
Begin at the End, Waterstones Thriller of the Month 'A triumph.
What a pleasure to read something fresh and original. For once the
hype is justified and Inga Vesper's gripping page turner must
surely now be bound for Netflix' Evening Standard 'A tasty, tense,
page-turning combo of James Ellroy and Kate Atkinson with a bit of
Mad Men thrown in' Liz Hyder 'For fans of Revolutionary Road and
Mad Men, this is an atmospheric tale of repression and style at the
heart of the American Dream' Stylist
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