Eileen Merriman

Moonlight Sonata (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Don't let the moodily lit and ever-so dreamy cover fool you - it well and truly belies the intensity and edginess of New Zealand author Eileen Merriman's latest skilfully crafted novel. . . . Moonlight Sonata is her first book for adults and here she strengthens the provocative, well-paced writing she's becoming widely known and regarded for. . . . Moonlight Sonata is about incest but not sexual abuse. On the contrary, this is possibly even more sensitive, complex and taboo territory because it's about consequences of attraction between consenting adults. Who happen to be related. . . . the plot is propulsive . . . She also knows what it takes to get a heart beating and breaking. Here, Merriman deftly shows the all-too-human dilemmas involved, the very real emotions and difficulties inherent in this situation. Only the most hard-hearted of reader would fail to be moved by what goes on - and has gone on - and only the most disciplined of readers will put the book down and turn the light off at a sensible time of night.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143773467
• Artikelnr.: 61983801

Autorenporträt

Eileen Merriman's first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying: 'Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.' In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy. In 2024, Merriman's compelling Catch a Falling Star, which depicts a 15-year-old spiralling into a mental health crisis, won both the New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award and NZ Booklovers' Best Young Adult Book. Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.