Jennifer Thorne is the USA Today bestselling author of Diavola and Lute, as well as several books for younger readers. With Lee Kelly, she is the co-writer of novels The Midnight Show, My Fair Frauds, The Starlets, and The Antiquity Affair. Born in the US, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the west of England.
Thorne's latest novel is Newbourne Park.
At CrimeReads she tagged "five literary country houses that also play host to devils." One title on the list:
Ian McEwan, AtonementRead about another novel on the list.
Regret is the ghost that haunts this Booker shortlisted 2001 novel, but the true monster is the narrator herself. Now a successful author, Briony was once a precocious teen whose cosseted childhood on the fairytale grounds of the Tallis family’s sprawling estatelends her an unearned assuredness…one that ultimately leads to devastation, wrongful imprisonment, and death.
As in so many other tales set in country retreats, class is the killer here—Briony’s privilege tipping into prejudice, the effects of which ripple through the rest of her life.
Atonement also appears on Megan Cummins's list of seven novels with storyteller main characters, Rebecca Romney's list of six books that owe a debt to Jane Austen’s work, Kaley Rohlinger's list of fifteen top books with unreliable narrators, Ore Agbaje-Williams's list of seven scandalous betrayals in literature, Brittany Bunzey's list of 23 books about backstabbing and betrayal, Emma Rous's list of the ten top dinner parties in modern fiction, David Leavitt's top ten list of house parties in fiction, Abbie Greaves's top ten list of books about silence, Eliza Casey's list of ten favorite stories--from film, fiction, and television--from the early 20th century, Nicci French's top ten list of dinner parties in fiction, Mark Skinner's list of ten of the best country house novels, Julia Dahl's top ten list of books about miscarriages of justice, Tim Lott's top ten list of summers in fiction, Ellen McCarthy's list of six favorite books about weddings and marriage, David Treuer's six favorite books list, Kirkus Reviews's list of eleven books whose final pages will shock you, Nicole Hill's list of eleven books in which the main character dies, Isla Blair's six best books list, Jessica Soffer's top ten list of book endings, Jane Ciabattari's list of five masterpieces of fiction that also worked as films, and on John Mullan's lists of ten of the best birthday parties in literature, ten of the best misdirected messages in literature, ten of the best scenes on London Underground, ten of the best breakages in literature, ten of the best weddings in literature, and ten of the best identical twins in fiction. It is one of Stephanie Beacham's six best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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