‘Reads like a house on fire’<\/b> – the extraordinary new novel by Iain Reid<\/b>, the acclaimed author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things<\/i><\/b>
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You think you know everything about your life.<\/i><\/b>
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Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and raise chickens. Their lives are simple, straightforward, uncomplicated.<\/p>\n
Until everything you think you know collapses.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Until the day a stranger arrives at their door with alarming news: Junior has been chosen to take an extraordinary journey, a journey across both time and distance,\u00c2\u00a0while Hen remains at home. Junior will be gone for years. But Hen won’t be left alone.<\/p>\n
Who can you trust if you can’t even trust yourself?<\/i><\/b>
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As the time for his departure draws nearer, Junior finds himself questioning everything about his life – even whether it’s really his life at all.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0An eerily entrancing<\/b> page-turner, Foe\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>churns with unease and suspense<\/b> from the first words to its shocking finale. Perfect for fans of Humans, Westworld <\/i>and Black Mirror<\/i>, Foe <\/i>is a book you will never forget.<\/b><\/p>\n
*** Praise for FOE ***<\/b>
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‘I couldn’t put it down.\u00c2\u00a0 It infected my dreams<\/b>. A creepy and brilliant<\/b> book’\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People<\/i><\/p>\n
‘The narrative is so eerie and disturbing<\/b>? fuelling the reader’s unease; Reid pulls off a wonderful twist in the tail<\/b>‘\u00c2\u00a0Guardian<\/i>
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‘From the opening page, you’ll have an uneasy feeling as you settle into Iain Reid’s brilliant new novel.. A masterful and breathtakingly unique<\/b> read. I can’t stop thinking about it<\/b> ‘\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine<\/i> and Still Water<\/i>
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‘Spare, consuming, unforgettable<\/b>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Foe <\/i>is a dark arrow from a truly original mind<\/b>.\u00c2\u00a0 Page by eerie page, Iain Reid pulls the unknown world out from under you, and leaves you trapped inside a marriage’s most haunting question: can I be replaced? This is a book that seeps into your bloodstream<\/b> – and crowns Iain Reid the king of deadpan, philosophical horror’\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Movie producers are simply confirming what the literary community already knows: Iain Reid just might be the most exciting<\/b> and excitingly unclassifiable<\/b> author working in Canadian fiction today’\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0– The Globe and Mail <\/i>(Canada)<\/p>\n
‘Foe <\/i>reads like a house on fire, and is almost impossible not to finish in one sitting<\/b>…an otherworldly hothouse of introversion and fantasy’ \u00c2\u00a0– The Toronto Star<\/i>
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