The Woman Upstairs
'Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar' New York Times Book Review
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY
'Riveting... Messud is adept at evoking complex psychological territory... She is interested in the identities that women construct for themselves, and in the maddening chasm that often divides intensity of aspiration from reality of achievement' The New Yorker
Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen.
One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's father has a fellowship at Harvard and his mother is a glamorous and successful installation artist. Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. Liberation from her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.
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- Published: Jan 02 2014
- Pages: 320
- 198 x 160mm
- ISBN: 9781844087334
Press Reviews
- Independent on Sunday
Messud is a breathtaking writer ... a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage.
- The Economist
Comedy, pathos, sadness: nothing seems beyond her. Her new book has all this-and more. The Woman Upstairs is not a pretty read, but that is precisely what makes it so hard to put down.
Lionel Shriver
Financial TimesMessud's prose is a delight ... addictive, memorable, intense
- Mail on Sunday
This is a faultless, suspenseful novel
Lionel Shriver
New StatesmanAn unnerving portrait of obsession that makes you nervous about your mousiest of neighbours