AN UNEXPECTED GUEST
APRIL 2012 HARDCOVER
An Unexpected Guest: A Novel
Anne Korkeakivi
978-0-316-19677-2, $24.99
A diplomat’s wife plans a Paris dinner that could change her future—if a terrible secret doesn’t destroy it first—in this captivating debut.
Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of
asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she discovers is a suspected terrorist. More unnerving is a recurring face in the crowd, one that belonged to another, darker era of her life. One she never expected to see again. But it can’t be him—he’s been dead for 20 years….
Like Virginia Woolf did in Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.
About the author: Anne Korkeakivi was born and raised in New York City, and has also lived in France, Finland, and throughout the United States. A former journalist, she currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and two daughters. Like her heroine, Clare, Anne Korkeakivi knows the world of foreign diplomacy—she is married to an international human rights lawyer who works at the United Nations.
Publicity contact: Liz Garriga, elizabeth@garriga@hbgusa.com
