Tony and Susan

Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings, a maths professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, so are we. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life. "Tony and Susan" is a dazzling achievement: simultaneously a riveting portrayal of the experience of reading and a page-turning thriller, written in startlingly arresting prose. It is also a novel about fear and regret, revenge and aging, marriage and creativity. It is simply unique.

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'With its trapdoor narrative and its psychological sleight-of-hand, this is a novel of immense guile and unsettling velocity. Why Wright isn't better known is a mystery to me. He's brilliant.' Rupert Thomson 'I read the book when I was 14, which is perhaps a little too young, but it had a profound effect on me and I've always been sad that it was rather lost to obscurity. I am thrilled to now be given the opportunity to sell it to a new audience and see it get the recognition it deserves.' Julia Kingsford, Head of Marketing, Foyles 'Marvellously written - the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful.' Saul Bellow 'Creepy, illuminating, quite wonderful.' Donna Leon 'Compelling - Mesmerizing - Absolutely irresistible.' New York Times 'Brilliantly original - Two thrillers in one...and each infinitely superior to most thrillers, because they play for keeps - Read it at your peril - in daylight, preferably.' Chicago Tribune

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Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.

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