Monster Love - Hardcover

Topolski, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905490267 ISBN 13: 9781905490264

Publisher: Fig Tree, 2008

Synopsis

Brendan and Sherilyn. A young couple in love. Each has met their soul mate, and nothing can come between them.

In fact, the Gutteridges are so wrapped up in each other that their neighbours barely know them, despite the woman next door's nosy curiosity. Their families and their work colleagues see only the perfect couple in the perfect home, the perfect car crouching in the drive.

And then a baby is born ― contaminating this pristine life in which there is only room for two. But they find the ideal solution.

What may be one couple's happy ending is everyone else’s indescribable nightmare . . .

Told through the Gutteridges' voices, and those of their families, neighbours, and those who will come across them in the aftermath, this perverse love story hurtles to the heart of evil ― the evil that could be anyone's next door neighbour.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Topolski is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her many previous roles include music festival organiser, advertising executive, teacher, nursery school director, director of a rape crisis centre and refuge for battered women, probation officer and film censor. She lives in London and is married with two daughters. Monster Love is her first novel.

From the Back Cover

"I thought the Gutteridges would enhance life in the Crescent;
they looked as though they'd got life sorted. They painted the outside of
their house as soon as they moved in, and had the front and back gardens
done by professional gardeners. Like the way Sherilyn dressed, it was
precisely colour coordinated. No room for any happy accident. They were
frightfully well mannered, always. But their manners were too good, as
though they weren't there to demonstrate concern for the other person, but
to repulse contact. I try not to be wise with hindsight, but Annie from
number 17 remembers me saying that when I'd spoken to one or other of them,
I felt like I'd been talking to an iceberg. Very beautiful, very frozen and
very hidden. Very lethal I might say now."

From the Inside Flap

`Disturbing, intelligent, the all-consuming psychosis at its heart never is glamorised by the author' Guardian

`A haunting examination of narcissism that will have you hooked from the very beginning. If you liked We Need to Talk About Kevin you'll love this' Harper's Bazaar

`A chilling, darkly compelling portrait of an unimaginable crime' Psychologies

Edition details

• Publisher: Fig Tree
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905490267
• ISBN 13: 9781905490264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272