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    Intrusion: A Novel
    Intrusion: A Novel
    Intrusion: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    Intrusion: A Novel

    Written by Mary McCluskey

    Narrated by Karen Peakes

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    About this audiobook

    A loving couple, grieving the loss of their son, finds their marriage in free fall when a beautiful, long-lost acquaintance inserts herself into their lives.

    Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus.

    When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage is thrown into a tailspin. Now wealthy beyond anything she could have imagined as a girl, Sarah appears to have everything she could need or want. But Sarah has an agenda and she wants one more thing. Soon Kat and Scott are caught up in her devious games and power plays.

    Against the backdrops of Southern California and Sussex, in spare and haunting prose, Mary McCluskey propels this domestic drama to its chilling conclusion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2016
    ISBN9781511358798
    Intrusion: A Novel
    Author

    Mary McCluskey

    Mary McCluskey is the author of the novel Intrusion and a number of award-winning short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published on Salon.com and in the Atlantic, the London Magazine, StoryQuarterly, Litro Magazine, and other literary journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong.

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    • 2/5
      Won in Goodread's Giveaway. Not bad. It was a quick read. Not much went on until the last few pages. I was expecting more suspense, based on the Gone Girl comparison (which I disliked). It just fell really short, as if it was the bare bones of a story.
    • 1/5
      Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus.When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage is thrown into a tailspin. Now wealthy beyond anything she could have imagined as a girl, Sarah appears to have everything she could need or want. But Sarah has an agenda and she wants one more thing. Soon Kat and Scott are caught up in her devious games and power plays.Against the backdrops of Southern California and Sussex, in spare and haunting prose, Mary McCluskey propels this domestic drama to its chilling conclusion.
    • 5/5
      Grief is a challenging topic for any novelist to explore. This is presumably even more pertinent when the novel involved is your debut and the grief involved was once your own. Mary McCluskey, journalist and short-story writer, tackles this subject with knowledge and care in her subtle portrait of a couple whose marriage is struggling to survive their devastating loss.-- What's it about? --How would you cope with the death of your child? Kat and Scott Hamilton have adopted rather different approaches to the sudden loss of their 17 year old son, Christopher: Scott has buried himself in his work, seeking oblivion in the finer points of law; meanwhile Kat has left her job and drifts aimlessly from day to day, unable to see any purpose in life.Then Sarah Cherrington appears. Twenty years ago, Sarah was Kat's best friend at school, but after a serious falling out there's been no contact between them. Suddenly, Sarah is everywhere: she brings Scott valuable business and takes Sarah out of her self-imposed imprisonment. Gradually, as she offers 'helpful' suggestions and guides each of them within their self-defined spheres, she begins to take control.Just what, exactly, does Sarah want from Kat? What else does Kat have to lose?-- What's it like? --This is a dark and utterly convincing story about the potential depths of both grief and the desire for retribution. Kat's hopelessness is affecting but also remorseless; I did find myself occasionally frustrated with her inability to see the truth about her 'friend', but her inner focus and vulnerability is so clearly delineated that her blindness is convincing. Similarly, her occasional selfishness is at once faintly repellent - she frequently seems oblivious to Scott's suffering, perhaps because it presents itself so differently to her own -  and completely understandable. McCluskey commented that she needed to describe Kat honestly to show 'how vulnerable she is to Sarah's interference'.Sarah is easily the most fascinating character and McCluskey handles the gradual revealing of her true purpose very effectively. She and Scott are sometimes harder to interpret than Kat, seen as they are through Kat's eyes and experiences, which helps create sufficient uncertainty to keep the reader guessing their motives. Minor characters are also well-drawn and their relationships confidently depicted in the minimum required words and scenes.The conclusion is perhaps a little startling; it could feel a touch melodramatic after the measured domesticity of the preceding narrative, but McCluskey's brisk prose whisks you through the trauma with a firmness that convinces. The final chapter is a brief but powerful coda, with the final sentence providing a suitably restrained beacon of hope for the future.-- Final thoughts --I loved McCluskey's brisk prose and focused narration. Her characters are utterly real and, although I had no desire to imagine myself in their positions, it's impossible not to empathise with all three central characters to a degree. This is a tightly focused narrative which develops into a quietly chilling story. It's really rather beautifully written and I shall certainly be looking out McCluskey's previously published short stories.Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Kat's and Scott's seventeen-year-old son Chris was recently killed in a car crash. Devastated by their loss, Scott throws himself into his work as a successful attorney while Kat prefers to retreat from the world. Through Scott's business dealings, Kat is unexpectedly reunited with a face from her past who starts to take an interest in Kat's life.My problem with this review is that I honestly have nothing much to say about the book. This was an ok read. It was quite short, kept my attention and the writing was ok. There was nothing inventive in this domestic drama, as I have read several similar stories before. I was expecting some suspense, mystery or surprising twist, but the build-up was completely foreseeable and the resolution so abrupt, it just left me feeling completely indifferent.I received an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      Title: IntrusionAuthor: Mary McCluskeyPublisher: Little AReviewed By: Arlena DeanRating: 4Review:"Intrusion: A Novel" by Mary McCluskeyMy Thoughts...I found "Intrusion" quite some read. What does it feel like to lose a child? The two main characters Kat and Scott really were given something that so many people have had to go through losing a child. For Kat we find her wanting to with draw from life and for Scott we find him throwing himself into his work. Now, with all of this going on in their life a childhood friend of Kat shows up but is she really a friend? With Kat not listening to her own sister Maggie about this person will she get caught up in Sarah's agenda after all that had happened to them so many years ago during their childhood?With Kat being so caught up in her grief would this cloud her judgment making her vulnerable?At this point in the read I was kept wondering what was this mysterious Sarah really up to. Well, I will stop here and say you must pick up this read to find out. This author really keeps the reader in suspense/thriller ride in how that part will be revealed to us however, somewhat abruptly done.If you like a fast paced read that deals with death, depression, isolation, with suicidal thoughts, tragedy and sadness then you have one read that will keep your attention till the end.