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The Hours Before Dawn

Celia Fremlin

The Hours Before Dawn

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The Hours Before Dawn won the 1960 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel. Louise would give anything—anything—for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine. Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real? What could she do, and would anyone even believe her? Maybe, if she could just get some rest, she'd be able to think straight.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780571338139
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Psychological suspenseMotherhood and sleep deprivationDomestic paranoia