🧠 Psychological Horror

Nightshift

✍️ Kiare Ladner
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🏛 Mariner Books 📅 2023 📖 256 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780063138254

📝 Description: Nightshift

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.

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Kiare Ladner crafts a disquieting psychological exploration centered on twenty-three-year-old Meggie, who becomes utterly transfixed by a distant and enigmatic woman named Sabine. Set against the liminal, shadowy backdrop of London's nocturnal working world, the novel builds an oppressive atmosphere fueled by chronic sleep deprivation, isolation, and the intoxicating vertigo of urban exhaustion. Rather than relying on overt supernatural jolts, the fear here stems from a creeping loss of identity and the dangerous intensity of an all-consuming obsession. It is a slow-burn, unsettling experience that will best suit readers who appreciate character-driven psychological tension, atmospheric urban alienation, and dark examinations of human desire.
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Kiare Ladner crafts a disquieting psychological exploration centered on twenty-three-year-old Meggie, who becomes utterly transfixed by a distant and enigmatic woman named Sabine. Set against the liminal, shadowy backdrop of London's nocturnal working world, the novel builds an oppressive atmosphere fueled by chronic sleep deprivation, isolation, and the intoxicating vertigo of urban exhaustion. Rather than relying on overt supernatural jolts, the fear here stems from a creeping loss of identity and the dangerous intensity of an all-consuming obsession. It is a slow-burn, unsettling experience that will best suit readers who appreciate character-driven psychological tension, atmospheric urban alienation, and dark examinations of human desire.

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