Bad Juliet
by Giles Blunt
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Pub Date Sep 02 2025 | Archive Date Jul 31 2025
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Description
“Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form.” — Nino Ricci, award-winning author of The Origin of Species
Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated ship Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir.
As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah’s memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.
Advance Praise
A powerful, engrossing, and beautifully written tale of a struggling poet, a famous Broadway playwright, and the beautiful young woman — a survivor of the Lusitania suffering from tuberculosis — whom both men love. Set in a sanitarium among the awe-inspiring lakes and forests of upstate New York, Bad Juliet shadows the trio as the men vie for the affections of a woman whose dark past and horrifying secrets threaten them all. Bad Juliet is a romance, a period piece, and a mystery, not to mention a North American answer to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain.
— G M Foy, author of The Last Green Light
Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form. Giles Blunt captures the world of an early twentieth-century sanitarium with the vividness and nuance of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, all the while confronting us with issues just as pressing today as they were a hundred years ago.
— Nino Ricci, award-winning author of The Origin of Species
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781459755727 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 352 |
