THE NIGHT FOLLOWING
Book ID/图书代码： 04300007B17012
English Summary/英文概要： On a blustery April day, the quiet, rather private wife of a doctor discovers that her husband has been having an affair. Moments later, driving along a winding country road and distracted perhaps by her own thoughts, perhaps blinded by sunlight, she fails to see sixty-one-year-old Ruth Mitchell up ahead, riding her bicycle. She hits her, killing her instantly. And drives away.
The hit-and-run driver is never found. But the doctor’s wife, horrified by what she has done, begins to unravel. Soon she turns her attention to Ruth’s bereaved husband, a man staggering sleeplessly through each night, as unhinged by grief as the killer is by guilt.
Arthur Mitchell does not realize at first that someone has begun watching him through his windows, worrying over his disheveled appearance, his increasingly chaotic home. And when at last she steps through his doorway, secretly at first, then more boldly, he is ready to believe that, for reasons beyond his understanding, his wife has somehow been returned to him….
A story of loss, lies, and wrongdoing, astonishingly complex and ingeniously inventive, The Night Following is also a love story and the extraordinarily moving tale of a killer’s journey from the shadows into the light. It confirms the mastery of a writer who is both tender and unflinching in her examination of human frailty—and of the shattering repercussions of deception.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 四月的一天，狂風亂作，妻子發現了丈夫的婚外情。狂怒下的她漫無目的地開著車，思緒混亂，刺眼的陽光透過車窗玻璃，使她睜不開眼睛，完全沒有看到前面騎著腳踏車的六十一歲的老太太—露絲… 一幕慘劇就這樣發生了。
她心裡害怕極了，看到四周無人便倉皇逃走。她的內心充滿了恐懼，很快她就把注意力轉到了露絲的丈夫上身上，他因為傷心過著夜不能寐的生活。他是如此痛苦，就像肇事者心中的內疚一樣，飽受折磨，身心俱疲。
亞瑟.米切爾起初並沒有意識到有人正透過玻璃窗悄悄觀察他，後來這個人竟然穿過他的門道，一開始小心翼翼，之後越發大膽，亞瑟無法理解、超出理智得相信，他的妻子好像又回到了他的身邊……一個迷失，謊言，情感糾結在一起的愛情故事。
一个迷失，谎言，情感纠结在一起的爱情故事。(RY&CLAIRE更新)
Awards/获奖情况：“A dark, psychological study of mental distress ... The simplicity and clarity of Joss’s writing shows how two people, overwhelmed by shock and loss, can quickly descend into instability and alienation. As a study of grief, sacrifice and the struggle for redemption this is an unsettling but absorbing read.”---Herald “The Night Following’ has an arresting central idea, which becomes a compelling plot, superbly developed. A woman, already rendered somewhat invisible to herself by an uncaring husband, takes a life by accident. Unable to face the idea of the visibility she will now have to endure, she plays to her strength - she disappears. But she disappears into penance; she hides herself in the ambience of the widowed husband and, as reparation, begins - without his knowledge - to take care of his devastated life. Understated, and written in Joss’s - as ever - sparse and elegant prose, this is a novel about us all. It s about the way we hover between what we have to do and what we want to do and what we need to do, and it is beautifully accomplished.”---Frank Delaney
“For her mastery of mood, her complex story lines and shrewd appreciation of the frail boundaries that divided the sane from the mad, Morag Joss has been compared to ... Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine, and Minette Walters. Such compliments are tossed about too lightly in the publishing world, but this one is so justified it seems like an understatement.”---Washington Post
‘Beautifully written and vividly observed, The Night Following is the powerful story of a woman’s struggle for redemption. It is a compassionate and moving novel’---Ron Butlin
‘Dazzling ... Richly nuanced and beautifully written. The Night Following is psychological suspense at its most unsettling.’---Seattle Times
“Joss’s exploration of her loners’ doomed attempts to reach outside themselves will remind readers of Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters, but her pathology is even more elliptical. Joss begins her psychological vivisection where other suspense novelists leave off. The results are extraordinary.”---Kirkus Reviews, starred
“Joss has concocted a haunting psychological suspense tale here…Joss is very like Ruth Rendell in the way she entices and disturbs.”---Booklist
“A haunting journey that should burnish the reputation of Joss as one of Britain’s most original crafters of psychological suspense.”---Publishers Weekly, starred
“In this bleak, exquisitely written novel, Joss braids together three stories of shattering loneliness that intersect in surprising, haunting ways.”---Entertainment Weekly
“Ms. Joss digs into the human psyche, stimulating the uncomfortable and prickly parts of us that are disguised under the veneer of civility we wear. Her lyrical and intense writing style pulls you in and simply won’t let go.”---freshfiction.com
“A very different, compelling book and one that will stay with the reader long after the book is closed.”---reviewingtheevidence.com
“Moody, atmospheric and emotional…A compelling journey.”---Romantic Times
“A finely wrought novel of psychological suspense…Joss spins…multiple storylines into a coherent whole with patience, tenderness, and a remarkable imagination. Wholly satisfying as a novel of suspense and completely true as an exploration of loss, The Night Following takes the reader into the gray recesses of the human spirit and comes full circle in the circle of life.”---Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Joss is a Scottish suspense writer of seriously intelligent, strikingly original psychological suspense novels. This one is strange and sad--a grieving widower moves steadily into madness and the woman who inadvertently caused his grief is ensnared by her own wish to help him out of it. The suspense is compelling, the novel of these two damaged people is very moving.”---Sullivan County Democrat
About the Author/作者介绍： MORAG JOSS，成長於蘇格蘭，首部作品Funeral Music即被Independent Mystery書商協會提名為年度最受歡迎小說，第四部作品一舉奪得2003年銀匕首獎的至高殊榮 Morag Joss grew up on the west coast of Scotland. Her first Sara Selkirk novel, Funeral Music, was nominated by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association for the Dilys Award for the year’s favorite mystery. Her fourth novel, Half Broken Things, won the 2003 CWA Silver Dagger Award. Morag Joss lives in the country outside the city of Bath and in London
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