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|title=The Night Guest

|sort=Night Guest, The

|publisher=Sceptre

|date=January 2014

|summary=Powerful debut novel by Australian writer about ageing. Don't buy this for pace of plot but it's an intelligent and disturbing tale of trust, dependency and mental confusion. And there might be a tiger in it.

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Widow, Ruth, lives alone in the isolated seaside house in New South Wales that was once their family holiday house. Her two adult sons now work abroad leaving her just her cats for company. Oh, and possibly a tiger who prowls the house at night. When Frida turns up unannounced claiming to have been sent by the government to care for her things get more and more mysterious. As Ruth reminisces and then meets up again with her former heartthrob from her youth in Fiji, it becomes clear that something isn't right, although with whom is a different matter.