The Hours Before Dawn - MASS MARKET ED.

Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel "Highly intelligent entertainment beautifully written with wit and humor." Frances Fyfield "It grips like grim death." The Spectator "Fremlin is a major mistress of insight and suspense." The New York Times In this Edgar Awardwinning thriller a young housewife with two lively daughters and an endlessly crying baby battles domestic chaos as well as growing suspicions of the households new lodger. Are Louises fears the product of sleep deprivation as her unsympathetic husband suggests or is there really something sinister about the respectable-seeming schoolmistress? During the hours before dawn Louise suspects people with a precarious grip on sanity are likeliest to slip over the edge into madness especially if theres someone ready to give them a push. Without spilling a drop of blood this psychological thriller transforms everyday events and settings into the extraordinary evoking an atmosphere of sheer terror. Crime novelist Andrew Taylor hailed author Celia Fremlin as "Britains equivalent to Patricia Highsmith her novels are domestic subtle penetrating and quite horribly chilling."