The Quiet Woman

THE QUIET WOMAN stitches together a horrifyingly plausable near-future dystopian Britain and a typically Priestian account of an individual lost in the blurred boundaries between the real and the imagined. It is a novel that bears comparison with the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and A.S. Byatt as well as that of John Wyndham a country that has lost its way memories of past lives are distracting Alice Stockton. Living alone after the break up of her marriage she makes a precarious living as a biographer yet finds herself powerfully and inexplicably influenced by the lives of others.A novel of uncertain personal histories and literary mystery set in a disturbingly real dystopian Britain THE QUIET WOMAN is vintage Christopher Priest.Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel THE PRESTIGE won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN X-MEN) Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT BATMAN BEGINS) Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY THE AVENGERS).