The Pre-War House (Trade Paper)

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A brooding uncle takes an au pairs passport. Years of tension between a father and a son erupt with violent consequences. A man disappears along a lonely mail route . . . and it has happened before. From the Man Booker-shortlisted author ofThe Lighthousecomes this uncanny collection of short fiction aboutthe unhomeliness of home: Fractured families, domestic claustrophobia, and the unseen menace of the everyday. With the same emotional tension and tightly controlled prose that garnered her first novel such accolades, Moore once again shines a light into the darkest corners of the human heart, moving deftly from flash fiction to novella, from insightful realism to chilling gothic horror.Praise for Alison MooreJust as uncompromising and unsettling as The Lighthouse.The GuardianBeautifully crafted, rendered in a lean, pared-down style that accentuates the stark content.MetroThe tales collected in The Pre-War House pick at psychological scabs in a register both wistful and brutal.The Times Literary Supplement