The Blue Hour • Meeting with Paula Hawkins

Saturday 19 October, 6pm • Monviso cinema (via XX Settembre 14, Cuneo) • Free, online booking

On the occasion of the simultaneous worldwide release of her new novel, Paula Hawkins, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train,.

Welcome to Eris: an island with only one home, one inhabitant, and one escape route. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours a day.

Once home to Vanessa, a renowned artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace, a solitary creature content in her isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in a London art gallery, a visitor sets out on her trail. And Eris's secrets threaten to surface..

Eris Island is unlike any other. Off the coast of Scotland, battered by the winds, it has only a tenuous connection to the mainland: a strip of land that disappears at high tide. It is only during those hours, with the sea separating her from everything, and no boat capable of breaking the waves, that Vanessa can finally sleep... A renowned artist, at the center of scandal throughout her life, Vanessa lived with a secret, one she took with her when she died too soon. A secret that perhaps now resurfaces, in one of her sculptures on display in London, made of bone and glass, in which someone has glimpsed something: a human bone. The people she left behind will piece together the intricate puzzle that was Vanessa: her patron, with whom she inexplicably argued before his death; a young critic who has harbored a secret love for Vanessa since childhood; her murdered ex-husband, to whom that bone may belong; and then Grace, the mysterious Grace, the friend of recent years, perhaps much more than a friend... In a formidable delve into human psychology, into the most hidden drives and desires, the author of The Girl on the Train delivers an elegant and disturbing thriller, in which, as only she knows how, she magnificently portrays characters on the dangerous edge between good and evil with a masterful mix of mystery and suspense that poses burning questions about ambition, power, and perception.

Paula Hawkins presents The Blue Hour (Piemme). She interviews Livio Partiti.

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