Everything Turns Away
READING AGE 4+
On September 11th, 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 so many others, it started with a plane flying into the World Trade Center. In this tautly written domestic thriller 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.
Everything Turns Away
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.
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The title of this novel, Everything Turns Away, comes from the poem “Musée des Beaux Art” by W. H. Auden, written in 1938 while Auden was staying in Brussels. In the poem Auden discusses the impact suffering has on humans. In the musée he contemplates the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus – a painting he thought was by Pieter Brueghel t……
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