Max enters Alice's life with a simple knock on the door one Friday evening. Once inside her apartment, Max's seemingly innocent market research survey becomes an intense psychological drama in which Alice must confront some tough questions about her past, and some unpalatable truths about herself.
Tense and unnerving, 'House Guest' is an extraordinarily skilled novel, both original in its conception and frighteningly astute in its observation of the innermost workings of the human psyche.