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From the author of The New York Times best-selling novels The Handmaid’s Tale - now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series - and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices.

Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.

©1972 O. W. Toad Ltd. (P)2018 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Marriage Scary
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Really enjoyed this, especially towards the end. Ends in typical Atwood style, leaving you guessing! Narrator is very good too.

Well worth a listen to

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Thoughtful, intelligent and beautifully written. Descriptions of nature and human relationships with nature sensitively observed.

Glorious writing

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Either it is a genius book, or very bad one 😄 Nothing happens, A lot of thinking, I don't know. Maby I am just too simple minded to understand it 😜

I didn't understand anything 😂

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I’ve read many of Atwood’s novels and loved all of them. This may be the most “plotless” (as one reviewer called it) but I enjoyed that. Atwood takes you deep into the Canadian landscape, her descriptions fauna, lake, swamp, and forests make me feel I have been there.

The main character’s self discovery and what “surfaces” midway through the novel is beautifully executed.

My second time reading and I may read again!

Atwood always delights

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Beautifully crafted and written. Really enjoyed this multi layered audiobook. Very well read too.

An excellent listen !

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