The Blue Room

<p>A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.<br><br><i>It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed.</i><br><br>For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Simenon's stylish and sensual psychological thriller weaves a story of cruelty, reckless lust and relentless guilt.<br><br>'A wondrous achievement, brief, inexorable, pared to, and agonisingly close to, the bone, and utterly compelling; in short, a true and luminous work of art.' John Banville<br><br>'A double crime, a dark provincial scandal, and a dreadful sort of triumph . . . presented with shattering power' <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><br>'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' <i>Independent</i></p> <p>A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.<br><br><i>It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed.</i><br><br>For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Simenon's stylish and sensual psychological thriller weaves a story of cruelty, reckless lust and relentless guilt.<br><br>'A wondrous achievement, brief, inexorable, pared to, and agonisingly close to, the bone, and utterly compelling; in short, a true and luminous work of art.' John Banville<br><br>'A double crime, a dark provincial scandal, and a dreadful sort of triumph . . . presented with shattering power' <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><br>'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' <i>Independent</i></p>