The Cry of the Owl

By: Patricia Highsmith

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Paperback | 15 April 2021

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272 Pages

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1.9 x 12.9 x 20

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Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics

"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."

Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is an omen too. But fate doesn't work in the way that either of them expect.

This novel of suspense and paranoia draws on Highsmith's own experience of being a stalker.

Industry Reviews

'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels'
Guardian

Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister, and this is well revealed in The Cry of the Owl, one of her finest novels
Robert Nye Guardian

Patricia Highsmith is a craftsman who has made the suspense novel her own domain
The Times

The basic nightmare situation - to be accused of a crime you did not commit and be unable to prove your innocence- is the subject of The Cry of the Owl... It's Kafka with a vengeance... compulsive
Spectator

A rare talent, a remarkable novelist... her books are written in elegant and lucid prose
John Mortimer

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