The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party

Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, Fiction & Poetry, Crime General
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Paperback Published on: 18/01/2023
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The Birthday Party
Exhilarating
Some context: I am usually no friend of the thriller genre. I don’t like the feeling tense and anxious when I read, I find myself trying guess what is goin... READ MORE
John - Glasgow Braehead
The Birthday Party
So good I didn't want it to end
This is the epitome of edge-of-your-seat, propulsive reading. Mauvignier gives a bird's eye view of everything, allowing the reader to see even the minute... READ MORE
Aaron Myles

Synopsis

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events.

Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.

  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • ISBN: 9781804270226
  • Number of pages: 504
  • Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm

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The Birthday Party
Now I know what “propulsive” means!
“having the quality of driving or pushing forwards” I really enjoyed this - the stories that unfold and lend sense to what’s happening, and the minute d... READ MORE
Mark Adams
The Birthday Party
A slow-burning page turner
Wow what an opening sentence, almost a whole page long. And thinking Mnsr Mauvignier is just showing off and this verbose, flowery language is totally ove... READ MORE
Ian James