The Silk Pavilion

By Sarah Walton

Category: All Books, Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Fiction, Women's, World Literature

Formats available: Paperback, Ebook

Pages: 392pp

Publication date: 14/05/24

ISBN-13: 9781909954564

ISBN-10: B09T96NFVL

This sun-scorched psychological thriller can’t wait. Deià calls to you.

Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. Their whirlwind affair takes her to the highs and lows of Deià – but something is wrong.

Beneath them lie the bodies of a generation and as Lucy unearths Spain’s darkness, her own skeletons begin to rattle the closet. Is she doomed to repeat the patterns of her childhood trauma? Can narcissists ever change? And what is that tapping on Villa Rosa’s pipes?

The Silk Pavilion expertly explores the nature of abuse, the power of victims and Jungian psychology, all while being totally unputdownable.

Some Blogger Reaction:

‘Mesmerizing storytelling… an absolute masterpiece and one I’ll savour over and over again.’ @murderjowrote

‘I couldn’t put this book down. Sarah Walton deserves tremendous credit.’ @labibliobecca

‘This story was an eye-opening, relevant one. I will not be forgetting this book in a long time.’ @penfoldlayla

‘A strange yet intoxicating and addictive read.’ @bookmarkonthewall

‘The Silk Pavilion is beautifully written and one of those stories that doesn’t leave you easily. I still think about it – and about Lucy’s courage. A spectacular read.’ @jerasjamboreee

‘Miguel is one of the most hateful characters I’ve ever come across.’ @bookwormblogss

‘The beautifully written sense of place has you understanding how this is part of the spell, the spell that keeps Lucy in danger’s reach.’ @numberslady_reads

‘Disturbing, chilling and extremely gripping. This is one I highly recommend for the tbr.’ @secretworldofabook

Reviews

Sarah Walton’s The Silk Pavilion weaves a compelling story around a young British woman and her controlling, narcissistic lover. Using fact, fiction and the historical remnants of the Spanish Civil War, she succeeds in bringing us, with honesty and empathy, this vividly told story. Reads like a thriller but also very much a novel of one woman’s journey of self-discovery and survival. Contemporary, relevant and highly readable

- Grace Nichols, Recipient of the Queen's Medal for Poetry

Sarah Walton’s latest novel is a surgically emotional study of the perils of deliberate and damaging forgetting for both an individual and a whole country. At its heart it examines the utter tyranny of abuse, the longevity of its implications and the struggles required to confront the pain. As such The Silk Pavilion is a Jungian exegesis that outgrows the thriller genre within which it as first seems to inhabit. Sarah is a supremely superior realist novelist.

- The Morning Star

The Silk Pavilion by Sarah Walton is a literary thriller… about toxic relationships, about misogyny, and draws on the Spanish Civil War as a theme. This is a powerful, intense, incredibly frank and uncomfortably erotic portrait of a woman striving to find herself, an intelligent and strong woman who yet has weaknesses that make her vulnerable. The prose is beautiful even when the subject is dangerous.

- Crime Time Radio

Sarah Walton

‘A supremely superior realist novelist’ – The Morning Star Sarah Walton is an author, writing coach and founder of Soul Writing Intuitive Coaching. Her debut novel, Rufius was long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize. Her second novel, Sophia’s Tale was written using her Soul Writing method and the process of writing it helped write her brain back to health after she sustained a brain injury, which caused language loss and writer’s block. Her third novel, The Silk Pavilion is a psychological thriller due out with Barbican Press in 2021. …

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