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Queen K
Sarah Thomas
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Beschreibung
'A classy thriller that will appeal to fans of Leila Slimani's Lullaby... A hot holiday read' Sunday Times
'A superb debut novel... Anyone who enjoyed The White Lotus will love Thomas's scalpel-sharp skewering of the mores and idiocies of the idle rich' Observer
'A dark and brilliant read . . . our bet is that this is going to be on the small or big screen' Glamour
On a balmy evening in late March, an oligarch's wife hosts a party on a superyacht moored in the Maldives. Tables cover the massive deck, adorned with orchids, champagne bottles, name cards of celebrities. This is what Kata has wanted for a long time: acceptance into the glittering world of high society. But there are those who aim to come between Kata and her goal, and they are closer to home than she could have imagined.
Witness to the corruption and violence underneath the shiny surfaces is Mel, a young English woman employed to tutor Kata's precocious daughter and navigate her through the class codes of English privilege. Now the closest Mel gets to such privilege is as hired help to the wealthy, and she is deeply resentful.
Exquisitely written and deliciously unreliable, Queen K takes the reader to some of the most luxurious places in the world. But a dark refrain sounds from the very beginning of the story and grows towards its operatic finale: a novel about insatiable material desire can only ever be a tragedy.
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A <b>superb </b>debut novel... <b>Anyone who enjoyed <i>The White Lotus </i>will love Thomas'
Neither of the two female characters are straightforward; the relationship between them is well-drawn and they successfully propel the plot at a rattling pace. Thomas has <b>a flair for telling a good story with wit and candour</b>
A <b> fascinating journey</b> with lots to draw us in
<b>Trust us and order this because you won'
Melanie is an outsider keeping her wits in a world of wealth and privilege . . . Thomas evokes these complex lives with <b>compelling insight</b>
<b>Thrilling, revealing and disturbing,</b> <i>Queen K</i> <b> dives deep into the hidden lives of the mega-rich</b>, the dark structures of privilege and power, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep the illusion afloat. Thomas knows her subject inside out and it shows - her <b>dazzling </b>debut is both a <b>gripping </b>mystery and a relevant treatise on the dangers of wealth without limits
<i>Queen K</i> is as <b> compulsive as a Netflix binge</b>, the bouncy prose propelling you forward, but it also asks timely questions about status and what constitutes a dignified life
What a <b>compulsive </b>read this was! A <b> real eye-opener into a world I knew little about.</b>
<b>Tensely charged ... an intriguing and absorbing debut</b>
<b>Gripping</b>
<b>Beautifully crafted and compelling</b>. Thomas <b>perfectly captures the textures of entitlement</b> and the inner workings of Russian plutocratic life lived between Moscow and Europe'
A wry, unsettling take on privilege, avarice and corruption. This book pulls back the curtain on the lives of the ultra-rich and reveals a world fatally distorted by greed and arrogance; it <b> navigates questions of class and complicity with a rare deftness.</b>
<b>Meticulously crafted</b>
<b>Echoes of </b> <i><b>The White Lotus </b>... </i>A <b>classy thriller that will appeal to fans of Leila Slimani'
<i>Queen K </i>lures you in with escapist, beach-read vibes, then bares its teeth with a devastating portrait of the emotional cost of greed
<b>Balzac in Balenciaga</b>... <i>Queen K</i> <b>lures you in with escapist, beach-read vibes, then bares its teeth</b> with a devastating portrait of the emotional cost of greed
<b>An enjoyably voyeuristic drama of ambition, exploitation and betrayal, </b>which illustrates how desire for acceptance can lead us to neglect others
<b>Patricia Highsmith-esque</b> ... an untrustworthy narrator judging her employer'
<b>Thomas has created a world of butter-cream-beige luxury, brimming with toxicity and darkness, that pulls you in, and under</b>
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