num_pages: 256
description: Ruth is widowed her sons are grown and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This womanFridaclaims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.Now that Frida is in her house is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman Frida who seems to carry with her her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself?
language: English
title: The Night Guest
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux