Celia Fremlin modernized the sensation novel tradition by infusing domestic settings with elements of crime and the supernatural. Her work is characterized by a unique perspective on the darker aspects of everyday life and seemingly ordinary situations. Fremlin explored complex relationships and character psychology with sharp insight and suspense, drawing readers into gripping narratives filled with twists. Her literary contribution lies in updating the genre for a contemporary audience.
The Jealous One (1964), Celia Fremlin's fifth novel, opens on its protagonist Rosamund as she wakes from a mid-morning nap to find, to her delight, that she is running a temperature. Surely that explains her blinding headache, and even the weird, delirious dream in which she had murdered her overly seductive neighbour, Lindy?
A classic seaside psychological thriller from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' and the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' (Sunday Times)'Brilliant ...
Clare Erskine thought it was a wonderful stroke of luck that her 19 year old daughter, Sarah, was engaged to marry an accountant. Sarah would live happily ever after and Clare pull ahead in the unspoken race that mothers run. But beneath the surface of suburban tranquillity, lies a story of a possessive mother and her twisted son.
Louise Henderson is trapped in a nightmare: the baby cries almost all night, every night, and the other children must be gotten off to school . . . Louise is so tired that she is afraid she is becoming psychotic; why does she have this feeling of apprehension, almost of terror? Is it connected with the lodger, a respectable school teacher? What is happening in the Henderson household? This novel, which won an Edgar in 1957, is one to be read in a single sitting.
Ivor died in a car crash two months ago - she may not be adjusting to widowhood very well, but Imogen certainly didn't murder him. As the nights draw in, Imogen finds her home filling up with unexpected Christmas guests - but they may be looking for more than just holiday cheer.
'A slow-burning chill of a read by a master of suspense.' Janice Hallett'Sinister, witty and utterly compelling. But their half-sister Mildred has returned to a nearby coastal cottage where her husband - the mysterious Uncle Paul - was arrested for his first wife's attempted murder: and family skeletons emerge.
Milly arbeitet in Seacliffe und kümmert sich diskret um die Haushalte ihrer Arbeitgeberinnen. Abends kehrt sie erschöpft in ihre Pension zurück und erinnert sich an ihr früheres Leben, das von einer gescheiterten Ehe geprägt ist. Die Flucht vor dieser Vergangenheit gestaltet sich jedoch schwierig.
Der Wissenschaftler Martin gerät mehr und mehr unter den Einfluss der jungen Ex-Psychologiestudentin Ruth.
"Kein Anblick konnte dieser Tage mehr Schrecken einflößen als der eines gutgekleideten Mannes mit Notizbuch in der Hand beim Betrachten eines Grundstücks ..." So beginnt ein psychologisch ebenso hinterhältiger wie spannender Roman rund um eine ganz gewöhnliche Familie auf dem Land: eine mißtrauische, etwas schwerhörige Großmutter, ihre zu Höherem berufene Tochter Claudia und das Enkelkind Helen.§
