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The Eye of the Beholder

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When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?
  • 06 September 2022
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Cora carries secrets her daughter can’t know.

Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.

Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.


Angel is working in a wolf sanctuary in Canada when an abandoned dog is brought in – a dog she knows. The dog’s owner is missing, but has he been caught out in a blizzard or has something more sinister caught up with him?


Cora is running from a dangerous man. Attempting to bury her emotions (fear and anguish) in her art has brought her controversy all her career, but the truth behind her paintings could expose more than a model.

Freya is close with her mother but trying to build a life of her own. While searching for answers, she has her own reasons for trying to unearth her mother’s history.


One act of violence sets the three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth. In a nail-biting thriller set between the scorched red soil of South Africa, the pitiless snowfields of Canada and the chilly lochsides of western Scotland, each woman must contend with the spectres of male violence, sexual abuse and the choices we each make to keep our souls.   

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Price: $29.99
Pages: 320
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date: 06 September 2022
Trim Size: 8.66 X 5.67 in
ISBN: 9781838856809
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, FICTION / Women, FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 21st Century, FICTION / World Literature / Scotland / 21st Century, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Southern Africa
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A tale of love and abuse that is as powerful as it is elegant - and it grips like a vice, too

Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist who has been dubbed the Queen of South African Crime Fiction. Her Clare Hart crime novels have been translated into ten languages and are being developed into a television series. She was born in London and grew up in Namibia. A Fulbright Scholar, she was educated in South Africa and the United States, has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and is an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. She is president Emerita of PEN South Africa and was the patron of Rape Crisis Cape Town while she lived in South Africa. She now lives in London.

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