Quiet Dell
Apr 2026 · Hachette UK
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About this ebook
A story of love, murder and obsession - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch
'Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story' STEPHEN KING
'Combines a strange hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence' COLM TOIBIN
'Superb' SUNDAY TIMES
'Absorbing and captivating' GUARDIAN
Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is swept off her feet by charismatic Harry Powers. After a hasty courtship, she agrees to move across the country to Quiet Dell, his farm in Appalachia. She and her children are never seen again.
Emily Thornhill, one of the few female journalists in Chicago, is sent to West Virginia to cover the case. The deeper her investigation leads, the more obsessed she becomes with Asta's disappearance - until she finally uncovers the terrifying truth.
'Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story' STEPHEN KING
'Combines a strange hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence' COLM TOIBIN
'Superb' SUNDAY TIMES
'Absorbing and captivating' GUARDIAN
Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is swept off her feet by charismatic Harry Powers. After a hasty courtship, she agrees to move across the country to Quiet Dell, his farm in Appalachia. She and her children are never seen again.
Emily Thornhill, one of the few female journalists in Chicago, is sent to West Virginia to cover the case. The deeper her investigation leads, the more obsessed she becomes with Asta's disappearance - until she finally uncovers the terrifying truth.
About the author
Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novels Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark and Termite, MotherKind, Shelter and Machine Dreams, as well as two short story collections. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper's, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction.
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