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Fiona McFarlane

Biography

Fiona McFarlane

Fiona McFarlane is the author of THE NIGHT GUEST (2013); THE HIGH PLACES (2016), which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize; and THE SUN WALKS DOWN. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker and Zoetrope: All-Story. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Fiona McFarlane

Books by Fiona McFarlane

The Night Guest
by Fiona McFarlane - Fiction

Widowed Ruth lives a quiet life by the sea until a woman claiming to be a government case worker comes to her door one wet night and stays. Frida’s presence subtly changes the environment, as Ruth suddenly starts recalling her childhood in Fiji and seems to hear a tiger roaming outside her window. Yes, there’s a dark secret in the past, but THE NIGHT GUEST is more concerned with creeping fear, the long road of aging, and the inviolable presence of the colonial past.