{"product_id":"the-turnout-9780349012476","title":"The Turnout","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH * DAILY MIRROR * DAILY EXPRESS * WALL STREET JOURNAL * BOSTON GLOBE * LIBRARY JOURNAL * CRIMEREADS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan Abbott.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents died in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters took over running the school together with Charlie, Dara''s husband and once their mother''s prized student. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school''s annual performance of \u003ci\u003eThe Nutcracker\u003c\/i\u003e - a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration - an interloper arrives and threatens their delicate balance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Compulsively readable'' RUTH WARE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A book you \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompulsively readable\u003c\/b\u003e * Ruth Ware (2021) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eImpossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic\u003c\/b\u003e. It's WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE in ballet shoes * Stephen King *\u003cbr\u003eImagine \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan \u003c\/i\u003eby way of Virginia Andrews' cult \u003ci\u003eFlowers in the Attic \u003c\/i\u003eand you have some idea of the dark nature of \u003ci\u003eThe Turnout \u003c\/i\u003e... \u003cb\u003eA twisting, turning story of revenge and redemption\u003c\/b\u003e * Stylist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaw, real and compulsively readable\u003c\/b\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eThe Turnout, \u003c\/i\u003eMegan Abbott does what she does best - combining family tensions with simmering desire and burning professional ambition * Ruth Ware (2021) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDark and juicy and tinged with horror\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharged with foreboding, the novel throbs with gothic tension\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eAbbott's prose is \u003cb\u003edazzlingly\u003c\/b\u003e precise and her portrayal of student rivalries \u003cb\u003erazor-sharp\u003c\/b\u003e in this \u003cb\u003etaut\u003c\/b\u003e novel * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbbott captures the blood, sweat, tears and rivalries behind the apparently effortless grace\u003c\/b\u003e, to create a contorted and febrile world where pain is \"our friend, our lover\" and \u003cb\u003ethe feeling of menace grows stronger with every page\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Turnout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecentres on a ballet school ... a hothouse ridden with suppressed hysteria, delineated so convincingly in \u003cb\u003eAbbott's peerless \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eprose \u003c\/b\u003ethat violent death, when it comes, seems not just plausible but inevitable. \u003cb\u003eMy thriller of the year\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph, Best Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story so intensely told that it will haunt your dreams\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Express, Best Books of 2021 *\u003cbr\u003eMegan Abbott is \u003cb\u003eone of the finest writers working in any genre\u003c\/b\u003e, anywhere and \u003cb\u003eTHE TURNOUT might well be her masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e. Nobody else writes so well about the darkness and damage lurking just beneath an elegant and serene surface. Brilliant and breath-taking, this is \u003cb\u003ea book that you will not be able to forget\u003c\/b\u003e * Mark Billingham (2021) *\u003cbr\u003eAbbott creates a \u003cb\u003edark and mesmerising \u003c\/b\u003eworld and, as always, is \u003cb\u003eso brilliant at portraying women and girls and their competition and complexities \u003c\/b\u003e... It makes \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan\u003c\/i\u003e look like a children's story * Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of Blood Orange *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere's no one who captures the atmosphere of a tight-knit hothouse world, in all its feverish beauty and brutality, quite like Megan Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e * Tana French (2021) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntoxicatingly intense, with a frisson of suspense and lurking disquiet \u003c\/b\u003ethroughout, those feelings \u003cb\u003ewill linger with you long past the last page\u003c\/b\u003e * Heat Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eThis dark thriller \u003cb\u003ewill suck you in right to the final page\u003c\/b\u003e * Sun *\u003cbr\u003eAll one needs to know about a Megan Abbott book is that it's a Megan Abbott book -- \u003cb\u003edreamy, sexy, a deep dive into a subculture \u003c\/b\u003ethat has been exhaustively researched. \u003ci\u003eThe Turnout\u003c\/i\u003e is all those things and more, taking you so far into the world of a small ballet school that you feel the characters' aches and pains in your joints, your feet and, most dangerous of all, your heart * LAURA LIPPMAN *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is not a writer alive who is better at investigating the tension and threat of violence at the centre of women's lives than Megan Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e no one else is looking at the violence from \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e women's lives, as opposed to outside threats on trains, planes, in windows, or on dark, shadowy streets. Megan goes into the heart of female spaces and finds the ugly in all that pretty, the dark in all that light, with breath-taking suspense. \u003ci\u003eThe Turnout\u003c\/i\u003e has notes of James M. Cain and Alfred Hitchcock, but it's better because it's \u003cb\u003eso fresh and unexpected, so wholly revelatory\u003c\/b\u003e. I turned page after page, holding my breath in fear, and also excitement, about what might happen in this run-down ballet school, what blood red might be lurking behind all that pink. \u003cb\u003eThis is Megan Abbott working at the absolute height of her talent\u003c\/b\u003e * ATTICA LOCKE *\u003cbr\u003eAnother \u003cb\u003egreat read \u003c\/b\u003efrom best-selling author Megan Abbott * Hello Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbbott has a top-notch ability to reveal the dark undercurrents of women's relationships and sexuality\u003c\/b\u003e. Her taut, unsettling writing creates tension through the slightest actions and phrases, and keeps the pages turning. This is \u003cb\u003eclever, chilling psychological suspense at its best\u003c\/b\u003e. * Library Journal (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eThis is \u003cb\u003ean extraordinary psychological thriller\u003c\/b\u003e, that brilliantly delivers its narrative and atmosphere through the taut, damaged bodies of its dancer protagonists. The writing is so \u003cb\u003epungent, physical and sensuous \u003c\/b\u003eyou feel like you're right there in the room with these obsessive, damaged, seductive characters. \u003cb\u003eIt's like Dario Argento's \u003ci\u003eSuspiria \u003c\/i\u003eperforming a pas de deux with Donna Tartt's \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Keith Stuart, bestselling author of The Boy Made of Blocks (2021) *\u003cbr\u003eThis look at the darker side of the dance world demonstrates why \u003cb\u003eAbbott has few peers at crafting moving stories of secrets and broken lives\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Abbott writes at \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003edarkest and sharpest cutting edge of psychological fiction\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Turnout \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003cb\u003ecompletely standout \u003c\/b\u003enovel of perception, mystery and style. It grips, challenges and delivers \u003cb\u003eone of the finest and most disturbing stories you'll read in a very long while\u003c\/b\u003e. It's also achingly moving. \u003cb\u003eI loved it\u003c\/b\u003e * Henry Sutton (2021) *\u003cbr\u003eThis is simply \u003cb\u003ea masterclass in great storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e and writing, an edgy and unpredictable tale full of nuance about the violence we inflict on others and ourselves -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47833034719575,"sku":"9780349012476","price":11.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349012476.jpg?v=1710340989","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-turnout-9780349012476","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}