Limestone and Clay: A Novel

By: Lesley Glaister

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Synopsis: An unsettled marriage takes a sinister turn in this novel of domestic suspense. It&’s &“pure gold&” (Los Angeles Times). Winner of the Yorkshire Post Author of the Year Award In a quiet English village, Nadia is a sculptor driven by an obsession to conceive a child. Creating is in her blood. Her husband Simon is a geology professor and spelunker determined to finish a project beneath the earth&’s surface that has already killed one man. Each consumed by private passions, the two live a blinkered coexistence, until Nadia makes an unsettling discovery: Simon&’s former girlfriend, Celia, is pregnant. But if Celia&’s husband is sterile, then who has made Celia such a happy and intolerably boastful mother-to-be? For Nadia, the answer is the ultimate, unforgivable betrayal. Now, as Simon&’s job takes him into the deep unknown, Nadia descends into darkness as well. And before the night is over, everyone is going to pay. &“Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister,&” says Harper&’s Bazaar, and in Limestone and Clay, she once again mines the horror of love as &“a jangle-nerved young married couple cook their respective obsessions to a nightmare boil&” (Kirkus Reviews).