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The Cutting Room

ISBN 
9780143530961
Format 
Epub
Recommended Price 
R210.00
Published 
April 2013
About the book: 

When her husband Amir abruptly leaves home, film editor Lucinda is left angry and puzzled. Where has Amir gone, and why? In the months before he left, Amir seemed troubled and preoccupied and their marriage had become strained and tense. Now Lucinda worries that his departure could be her fault. Soon afterwards, Lucinda is brutally assaulted in a knife attack, which throws her even more off balance.

Searching for composure, she finds a distraction in assisting an older friend, Austrian film-maker Thomas, with a documentary he is making about an old mission station which is allegedly haunted. But the experience becomes an unnerving one for Lucinda who finds Thomas’s growing obsession with the story behind his film worrying. As tensions build, so does the underlying mood of constant menace, until Lucinda is confronted with a disturbing revelation.
 
The Cutting Room is a thoughtful and provocative novel of loss and loneliness, longing and guilt, and the different ways in which people can be haunted.
 
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About the Author

Mary Watson is from South Africa and now lives on the west coast of Ireland. She has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, where she taught for many years. She won the  Caine Prize for African Writing  for her adult publishing in South Africa, and in 2014 was named on the  Africa39  list of writers under 40 with the potential to define trends in African literature. Her YA novels have been nominated for the  Irish Book Awards  and the  Carnegie Medal.  Her adult debut,  The Cleaner,  was an instant  Irish Times  bestseller.

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