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Everything Turns Away
By Michelle Berry
On September 11, 2001, the world changed. For Sophie and Paul, it started with a disastrous dinner party. For the babysitter, it started with waking in a dark kitchen and recognizing the smell of blood. For others, it started with a plane flying into the World Trade Center. ... Read more
Overview
On September 11, 2001, the world changed. For Sophie and Paul, it started with a disastrous dinner party. For the babysitter, it started with waking in a dark kitchen and recognizing the smell of blood. For others, it started with a plane flying into the World Trade Center. In this tautly written domestic thriller set in Toronto, Michelle Berry weaves together the story of two couples whose lives are about to be unravelled by the murder of a neighbour, a babysitter who has gone missing and the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center. It is a haunting exploration of marriages and what tears them apart, of what happens to people during shocking events and of how everything can change in an instant. Filled with richly drawn characters, a web of thwarted desires and multiple motives, Everything Turns Away is riveting until the very end.
Michelle Berry
Michelle Berry is the author of three books of short stories and five previous novels. Her short story collection I Still Don't Even Know You won the 2011 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book Published by a Manitoba Publisher and was shortlisted for a 2011 ReLit Award, and her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life won the 2010 Colophon Award and was longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award. Her writing has been optioned for film and published in the UK. Berry was a reviewer for the Globe and Mail for many years, and taught online for the University of Toronto. She was also a mentor at Humber College. Berry now lives in Peterborough, ON.
Reviews
"Everything Turns Away is an impressive mystery with strong thriller elements and well worth reading on that level alone. Where Berry excels, though, is with her attention to each character [. ..] While the four main characters begin as familiar types, they deepen and fill out over the novel, becoming relatable and sympathetic despite some inherent unlikability. Most readers will find elements like the respective bitchy post-dinner analyses and the escalating marital complications perhaps uncomfortably familiar. "
"Berry’s skilled, unforgiving rendering of these flawed characters, along with her propelling prose, is exactly what makes the novel so compulsively readable. "
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Under the Cover: Everything Turns Away
Twenty years since the tragic events of 9/11, Michelle Berry's haunting, domestic thriller Everything Turns Away (Wolsak & Wynn) weaves together the story of two couples whose lives are about to be upended by the murder of a neighbour, a babysitter that has gone missing ... Read more
- Dimensions 282 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.6 in
- Published September 7, 2021
- Publisher Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
- Category Fiction
- Keywords Non-classifiable , Literary , C 2000 To C 2009 , Thriller / Suspense Fiction , Family Life Fiction
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