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From Chloe Hooper, author of the phenomenal The Tall Man, comes a brilliant novel about sex and money. The Engagement is a taut psychological thriller in which the deft blurring of reality and dark fantasy rivals that of Luis Bunuel's classic Belle de Jour.
Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral dynasty, at his property in western Victoria. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, now works at her uncle's real-estate business in Melbourne. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies - and helps pay her debts. It's a game. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks.
Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and realises a different game has begun. This gripping, provocative new novel by one of Australia's finest writers is a psychological thriller for the modern age, one which explores the snares of money and love, and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?
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"The Engagement" is a psychological thriller where the storyline is so unexpected and so brilliantly unveiled in its pages. It's like going on the "Tower of Terror" at Disney World and at first thinking, "Oh, it's just a ride...", but then once you walk through those doors and get on the elevator, you question reality and scream, "Is this is really happening?!"
If you are looking for a book that takes you to a different plane, that will leave you on the edge of your seat, that will stay with you for years after you've read it, that will bring you back to listen to it again and again just to relive the surreal journey, then "The Engagement" is for you.
I put this book in my top 5 (maybe even #1) of all of my hundreds of audiobooks I've listened to.
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