The Narrow Bed
- Author Sophie Hannah
- Narrator Julia Barrie
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 15 hours and 3 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
'The genius of Hannah's domestic thrillers - along with the twistiest plots known to woman - is that she creates ordinary people whose psychological quirks make them as monstrous as any serial killer.' Guardian
'The queen of the ingenious plot twist' Good Housekeeping
'Hannah - like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell before her - is an expert at exploring the delicate line between the ordinary and the monstrous, yet her everyday tales of warped psychology are laced with humour.' Independent
'Her plots are ingenious - she's a writer in complete command of her material . . . She keeps you puzzled and intrigued right until the end.' New York Times
'The queen of psychological crime . . . Fiendishly clever' Sunday Express
'Hannah has revived the apparently exhausted detective genre by inventing a new style. You could call it every-day Gothic or ordinary extremism. But whatever label you stick on her books, they stay with you because you are likely to share or at least understand the motives of the killer.' Spectator
'An exceptional storyteller' Elle
'One of the great unmissables of this genre - intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully gothic imagination' The Times
'Jaw-droppingly assured . . . Simon Waterhouse . . . is destined to be up there with the Poirots, the Marples and the Sherlock Holmeses of detective fiction.' Daily Express
'Sophie Hannah brings many gifts to crime fiction. She is a poet whose use of language is precise, and her images are evocative. As a novelist, her overriding interests lie in people on the edge and in the relationships that have driven them there.' Times Literary Supplement
'Hannah is a master of intense psychological thrillers.' Heat
'No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah . . . unpredictable, unputdownable and unlike anything else you've read before.' Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband's Secret
'There is an admirable, complicated cleverness about [Hannah's] stories . . . Think Agatha Christie at her best but updated to a time of Twitter and online dating.' Independent on Sunday
'Sophie Hannah's ingenious, almost surreal mysteries are so intricately constructed that it's impossible to guess how they will end.' Sunday Telegraph
Critics Review
THE NARROW BED introduces us to Sophie Hannah’s possibly most entertaining character yet . . . the central plot is eventually explained with Hannah’s powers of outrageous cunning at full blast.
The solution to the crimes is one of her most ingenious and also adroitly contributes to a current debate; though to say which would be to spoil the fine Agatha Christie-style denouement.
Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christie’s heir. Her crime novels have a deep vein of surrealism; not just in the ingenious plotting but in the seething menace lying behind the everyday. The Narrow Bed . . . is exquisitely horrible. As with previous books, much of the enjoyment here is in the psychological acuity. Although she is praised for the twistiness of her plots, Hannah’s real gift is in revealing the contorted and convoluted nature of the human heart.
A madly enjoyable novel that takes great pleasure in deconstructing as many narrative tropes as possible.
Hugely entertaining, full of uncomfortable truths
As an ever-growing legion of crime writers fights for the attention of readers, it’s comforting to settle down in the company of someone utterly reliable. Sophie Hannah rarely puts a foot wrong in her complex psychological thrillers, and this latest book bristles with the acutely observed characterisation that is the hallmark of her work.
Hannah’s mastery of plot and character are simply peerless.
Imaginative, quirky, inventive and bleakly funny . . . The Narrow Bed confirms Hannah’s place as the mistress of postmodern crime fiction.
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