This sun-scorched psychological thriller can't wait. Deià calls to you.
"INTENSE, INCREDIBLY FRANK AND UNCOMFORTABLY EROTIC... THE PROSE IS BRILLIANT EVEN WHEN THE SUBJECT IS DANGEROUS."Crime Time Radio
Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. Their whirlwind affair takes her to the highs and lows of Deià.
But something is wrong.
Beneath them lie the bodies of a generation and as Lucy unearths Spain's darkness, her own skeletons begin to rattle the closet. Is she doomed to repeat the patterns of her childhood? Can narcissists ever change? And what is that tapping on Villa Rosa's pipes?
The Silk Pavilion explores toxic relationships and the power of victims, all; while being totally unputdownable.
Autorentext
The pandemic has restricted Sarah Walton to the Sussex Downs of late, but she is restless for encounters around the world. A digital pioneer in California, she remains a leading figure in digital innovation and corporate storytelling. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and lectures on Hull University's Online MA Creative Writing. Sarah also teaches her Soul Writing method, that combines meditation, free-writing and creative writing skills. This is her third novel.
Klappentext
'An intense and enthralling read.' Philip Ayckbourn
Lucy's on assignment. The wild reclusive writer awaits her arrival in his Mallorcan home. She wants the story of his life. He wants her to become part of it.
Villa Rosa hides a dark secret. Beneath Deià's sunny olive groves are the bodies of a generation. Spain's unearthed shadow entwines with Lucy's as her own skeletons start to rattle out of her closet. Will she uncover the truth before it's too late, or replay the pattern of her childhood abuse?
'Set in the small Spanish town of DeÌa and its beautiful Villa Rosa, Sarah Walton's The Silk Pavilion weaves a compelling story around a young British woman and her controlling, narcissistic lover, Miguel Mateo Nadal. Using fact, fiction and the historical remnants of the Spanish Civil War, she succeeds in bringing us, with honesty and empathy, this vividly told story that reveals how the trauma inflicted in one's childhood can distort the psyche, leading the individual into choosing, unconsciously, further abuse as an adult. Her novel reads like a thriller but is also very much a novel of one woman's journey of self-discovery and survival. Contemporary, revenant and highly readable. A brave and important book.' Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
'A strange, almost dream-like reading experience - a journalist lands in Mallorca but comes to fear that she is a prisoner of her own mind. Febrile and frequently disturbing, with a hint of Bluebeard to it, it put me in mind of Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky - that sense of someone who is lost but compelled to pursue the path as it materializes before them. It had me gripped right to the end.' Mick Jackson, award-winning novelist and screenwriter