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This Sweet Sickness

A Virago Modern Classic
By Patricia Highsmith
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boarding house to walk the streets... David Kelsey has an unswerving conviction that life is going to work out for him - if he can just... Read More
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This Sweet Sickness

From the bestselling author Patricia Highsmith comes a brilliantly gripping psychological thriller about the fine line between love and obsession. Now reissued as part of the Virago Modern Classics Green Spines design.

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It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boarding house to walk the streets...

David Kelsey has an unswerving conviction that life is going to work out for him - if he can just fix the 'Situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean she doesn't still love David. Even though she's pregnant with her husband's baby, David is certain she will take him back.

Under an alias, he is setting up the perfect home for the two of them in a town close by. And everything is just about going to plan, until things take a murderous turn... An addictively twisted study of obsession from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

Introduced by Sarah Hilary

'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES

'I love Highsmith so much. What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN

'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM

'To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability' SUNDAY TIMES

Series: Virago Modern Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349019659

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Sarah Hilary

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 320

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Patricia Highsmith Series: Virago Modern Classics

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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