Melanie Finn: 4 books

* New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2016. * The Guardian's "Not the Booker Prize" Shortlist. * Publishers Weekly's 'Big Indie Books of Fall 2016' "Deeply satisfying. Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller. [The Gloaming] deserves major attention."...

With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel *The Gloaming—*which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood....

Ellie's upbringing in colonial Africa in the 1960s and 70s—stiff whiskies, keeping up appearances and English gardens amidst the African Bush—was marked by a troubled relationship with a violent father she didn't really know. So when she returns there after her father's death, for the first time...

"Debris and Detritus, the lesser-known Greek gods..." * These words launched over a dozen alternate realities and histories, invaded existing universes, and even inspired a book or two—with Debris and Detritus running amok through every world they touch. With nothing else to go on, writers...