The Guest

Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome...

 

One misstep at a dinner party and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources, but a gift for navigating the desires of others, Alex stays on the island. She drifts like a ghost through the gated driveways and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world, trailing destruction in her wake.

 

Taut, sensual and impossible to look away from, The Guest captures the latent heat and potential danger of a summer that could go either way for a young woman teetering on the edge.

 

PRAISE FOR EMMA CLINE

 

'Taut, beautiful and savage' -  Guardian

 

'So deft, with an undercurrent of unease' - Pandora Sykes

 

'Stunning . . . thrilling . . . a spectacular achievement' -  The Time

 

'Cline's talent at uncovering the seedy and somehow bringing it to beautiful light is brilliant' -  Daisy Johnson

 

'Something about Cline's intimate tone, her talent for conjuring the feeling of being alive, is entirely and uniquely her own' -  Rachel Kushner

 

'An astonishingly gifted stylist' -  Brandon Taylor