Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2010.
Set in a Finnish sanatorium where women retreat with problems real and imaginary this debut is dark, claustrophobic, tense and menacing. A dramatic and brilliantly told story but not one to try if you are looking for a light hearted read.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2010.
In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto. Is is the early twentieth century and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. The upper floors house foreign women of privilege, tended to by Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life, only to retreat behind a mask of crisp professionalism.
On a late summer's day, a new patient arrives on Sunny's ward, a faded, irascible former ballroom-dance instructor named Julia Dey. Sunny takes it upon herself to pierce the mystery of Julia's reserve, but soon Julia's tightly coiled anger places her at the centre of the ward's tangled life...
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto is available in Paperback
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto was written by Maile Chapman and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto has 263 pages
£11.69
