Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality.
Iain Reid's intense, suspenseful debut novel will have readers' nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the final page.
Reminiscent of Michael Faber's Under the Skin, Stephen King's Misery and the novels of Jose Saramago, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an astonishing and highly original literary thriller that grabs you from the start-and never lets go.
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From the first sentence this book is enthralling and unsettling, taking us into the mind of a young woman who is uncertainty about a new relationship as she meets his family for the first time, and everything begins to unravel. The creepy familiarity of the experience of doubt will leave you thinking about this story for days as will the philosophical ideas of the protaginists conversations. - Danielle (QBD)
Guest, 18/10/2020
