Summary
Paula Hawkins: Quiet Fire
Quiet Fire is a new novel by the author of the global hit The Girl on the Train.
Carla Myerson, Laura Kilbride and Miriam Lewis have never recovered from the tragedies that befell them in the past. And then a new accident happened on their London doorstep: A young man was brutally murdered.
Three women know a young man who was stabbed to death on his ship. Moreover, they are the last three people who saw him alive.
Did Carla perhaps judge him? His grieving aunt and last remaining family member after his
mother fell down the stairs and broke her neck just weeks before. Maybe Laura, the unstable girl with whom
he spent one night? Or Miriam? A curious neighbor who evidently hides information from the police.
Silent Fire, through a palette of disordered, deviant and disturbing characters, meticulously portrays how repressed traumas and hidden truths that have been quietly cooking in people for years slowly but uncontrollably come to the surface.
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