This book, too, has been the subject of a number of film versions. In 1955 her anti-hero Tom Ripley appeared in the splendid 'The Talented Mr Ripley', a book that was awarded the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere as the best foreign mystery novel translated into French in 1957. The novel has been adapted for the screen three times, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Her first suspense novel 'Strangers on a Train' published in 1950 was an immediate success with public and critics alike. During this period of her life she lived variously in New York and Mexico. She continued to write short stories, many of them comic book stories, and regularly earned herself a weekly $55 pay-check. Shortly after graduation her short story 'The Heroine' was published in the Harper's Bazaar magazine and it was selected as one of the 22 best stories that appeared in American magazines in 1945 and it won the O Henry award for short stories in 1946. Returning to her parents in New York, she attended public schools in New York City and later graduated from Barnard College in 1942. She lived with her grandmother, mother and later step-father (her mother divorced her natural father six months before 'Patsy' was born and married Stanley Highsmith) in Fort Worth before moving with her parents to New York in 1927 but returned to live with her grandmother for a year in 1933. Can’t remember the last time a novel surprised you? Deep Water is the next time a novel surprises you." -A.J.Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations over the years. Perhaps you’ll hear echoes of Alex Garland’s The Beach, or Catherine Steadman’s Something in the Water, or any number of distinctive mind-benders – yet Deep Water conjures a black magic entirely its own. Turn a page (you’ll turn them fast) and the story shimmering before you might shape-shift: now it’s a game of domestic cat-and-mouse, now a merciless survival narrative, now a feat of literary suspense… Above all, though, Emma Bamford’s Deep Water – also the title of an early work by Patricia Highsmith, whose cool and control Bamford has inherited – is that most exciting, most evolved species of psychological thriller, one in which the darkest dangers lurk not in the next room, not in a secret kiss, not even in the ocean depths, but in a suspicious mind and a guilty heart. "A mirage of a novel, seductive and slippery. But when his crew make a shocking discovery, he realizes that if he doesn’t act soon, they could all fall under the dark spell of the island. Now, it’s up to Danial to determine just how much truth there is in Virginie’s alarming tale. Soon, Jake and Virginie’s adventurous dream turns into a terrifying nightmare. When they arrive, they discover they are not the only visitors and quickly become entangled with a motley crew of expat sailors. Deep water full#They start at the busy harbors of Malaysia and, through word of mouth, Jake and Virginie learn about a tiny, isolated island full of unspoiled beaches. Months earlier, the couple had spent all their savings on a yacht, full of excitement for exploring the high seas and exotic lands together. Trembling with fear, she reveals their shocking story to Danial. On board the yacht is a British couple: a horribly injured man, Jake, and his traumatized wife, Virginie, who breathlessly confesses, “It’s all my fault. When a Navy vessel comes across a yacht in distress in the middle of the vast Indian Ocean, Captain Danial Tengku orders his ship to rush to its aid. The dark side of paradise is exposed when a terrified couple reveals their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuers-only to realize they’re still in the grips of the island’s secrets-in this intense and startling debut in the tradition of Into the Jungle and The Ruins.
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