The Pleasing Hour
$22.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2025
Summary
A New York Times Notable Book
Young, inexperienced, and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie travels to France to become an au pair to the Tivot family. Nicole, the cool, distant, and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for, is impossible to connect with—there is something about the woman that both fascinates and unnerves Rosie.
The same is true of the rest of the Tivot clan. Nicole’s husband, Marc, and their children all seem to be caught in an unen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035051106 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035051109 |
| Author: | Lily King |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 131mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Powerful … splendid … so assured that it’s hard to believe the book itself is her debut. * The New York Times *
Written with quiet, lyric forcefulness … an impressive debut. * Elle *
A careful, intelligent writer. * The Times Literary Supplement *
A tender debut. * She *
Here, as with a palimpsest, each new form of pleasing delineated by the author is made more complex by the imprint of the last. * The New Yorker *
Though she tells lean stories, King can brush lush descriptions, with majestic colors and vivid, fleeting pleasures. * The Seattle Times *
Beautifully wrought. * USA Today *
Profound and surprising. – Alice Fulton, author of Sensual Math
Elegant and wise. – Roxana Robinson, author of This Is My Daughter
Lily King
Lily King is the author of The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Euphoria, Writers & Lovers, which was a New York Times bestseller, and the short story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter. Euphoria won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. King is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has twice won both the Maine Fiction Award and the New England Book Award. She lives in Maine, USA.
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