The Squeeze - Glaister, Lesley
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Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceau_escu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this multi_award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers.
Marta, a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh. Mats, a Norwegian businessman, who longs only to be a good husband and father, becomes involved with Marta and both their lives are wrenched - for good or ill - in new directions.
Told in a splintered narrative style that allows glimpses into several points of view, The Squeeze…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceau_escu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this multi_award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers.

Marta, a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh. Mats, a Norwegian businessman, who longs only to be a good husband and father, becomes involved with Marta and both their lives are wrenched - for good or ill - in new directions.

Told in a splintered narrative style that allows glimpses into several points of view, The Squeeze explores the transactions that take place between men and women.

Sex, money and the desire for love, are at its heart.
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Autorenporträt
Lesley Glaister is the prize-winning author of thirteen novels, most recently, Little Egypt. Her short stories have been anthologised and broadcast on Radio 4. She has written drama for radio and stage and published a pamphlet of poetry 2015. Lesley is a Fellow of the RSL, teaches creative writing at the University of St Andrews and lives in Edinburgh.
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The Squeeze has the pace and plot points of a thriller, and the tension rarely ebbs. It's also sharply written, and Glaister's corvid eye for squalor grounds her story skilfully in the queasy humdrum even as the drama ratchets up.

Stephanie Cross Daily Mail