The Turnout: 'Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic' (Stephen King) - the New York Times bestseller - Softcover

Abbott, Megan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349012466 ISBN 13: 9780349012469

Publisher: Virago, 2022

Synopsis

The new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the multi-award-winning writer Megan Abbott, 'the perfect storyteller - compelling, confounding and unconventional' (VAL MCDERMID).

About this title

About the Author

Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including New York Times bestseller The Turnout, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, and The End of Everything. She received her PhD in literature from New York University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Believer. She's the cocreator and executive producer of USA's adaptation of Dare Me, now on Netflix, and was a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show The Deuce. Abbott lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

'A book you will not be able to forget' MARK BILLINGHAM


Dara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. Since their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters have run the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. The three have perfected a dance that keeps the studio thriving.

But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker - a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration - an interloper arrives and threatens their delicate balance.

'Slow-burning and feverish, with all the intensity of a classic American film noir' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'There's no one who captures the atmosphere of a tight-knit hothouse world, in all its feverish beauty and brutality, quite like Megan Abbott' TANA FRENCH


'Dark and juicy and tinged with horror' NEW YORK TIMES

'Abbott captures the blood, sweat, tears and rivalries behind the apparently effortless grace ... the feeling of menace grows stronger with every page' GUARDIAN


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Edition details

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349012466
• ISBN 13: 9780349012469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352