Master storyteller Patrick McGrath—author of the critically acclaimed novel Asylum and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction—once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's Lo[...]

From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily

beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her

psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the [...]

The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she[...]