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Quiet Dell

By Jayne Anne Phillips
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A story of love, murder and obsession - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch 'Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story' STEPHEN KING 'Combines a strange hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence'... Read More
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A reissue of Quiet Dell, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch

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A story of love, murder and obsession - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch

'Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story' STEPHEN KING

'Combines a strange hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence' COLM TOIBIN

'Superb' SUNDAY TIMES

'Absorbing and captivating' GUARDIAN

Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is swept off her feet by charismatic Harry Powers. After a hasty courtship, she agrees to move across the country to Quiet Dell, his farm in Appalachia. She and her children are never seen again.

Emily Thornhill, one of the few female journalists in Chicago, is sent to West Virginia to cover the case. The deeper her investigation leads, the more obsessed she becomes with Asta's disappearance - until she finally uncovers the terrifying truth.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349725536

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fleet

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 464

Collections

Biography & Memoir Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Jayne Anne Phillips Literary Fiction True Crime

About the Author

Jayne Anne Philips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of six novels, including Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark And Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two story collections, Fast Lanes, and Black Tickets, a debut that influenced a generation of writers. Twice nominated for the National Book Award, and twice a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages and has appeared in Granta, Harper's, The New York Times and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. See information and text source photographs at her website, www.jayneannephillips.com.

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