The Eye of the Beholder

Review\nA tale of love and abuse that is as powerful as it is elegant - and it grips like a vice, too -- IAN RANKIN\nSubtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary. Margie Orford has a quietly understated, beautiful literary style -- PETER JAMES\nPraise for Margie Orford: Margie Orford is a name you should commit to memory ― O, Oprah Magazine\nWonderfully crafted and fully engrossing -- MICHAEL CONNELLY\nMargie Orford is world-class. This is crime writing at its very best -- DEON MEYER\nOrford has a rare ability to get under the skin of the genre's conventions ― Irish Times\nOrford truly understands the transformative power of violence for those who survive it and those who visit it upon others. It gives her writing visceral power. -- DAMIAN BARR\nThe acclaimed 'Queen of Crime fiction' in South Africa takes a further step into the dark. The result is as compelling as it is frightening and deeply thought provoking. The Eye of the Beholderis sure to play a key role in the ongoing debate about what women and men are, and can be, for each other in these violent times. -- JACQUELINE ROSE\nUtterly brilliant. Gorgeous, unflinching and a total surprise\nSuperstar Margie Orford's writing has garnered acclaim everywhere . . . Her writing is cinematic, powerful and so close to the bone it almost cuts\nMargie Orford gives genre writing swagger, she makes it look good . . . every detail convinces. Every sentence is clipped, pared down, muscular, every emotion captured with poise and precision ― Slipnet\nMargie Orford invented the genre and mastered it\nSubtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary. Margie Orford has a quietly understated, beautiful literary style\nA hard-hitting, affecting novel about women who refuse to allow men off the hook ― Irish Times\nA subtle, confrontational and disturbing read . . . mirrors contemporary society in a thought-provoking way\nA fascinating, terrifying work focused on the power and destructive nature of the male gaze ― news24, South Africa\nChilling and somewhat complex, curling like a snake around your heart! . . . The story flows like an urgent river, and brings us into the heart of the world that only recently has been rocked by the #Metoo campaign . . . Powerful ― IOL\nA stunner ― The Big Thrill\nInsight, intrigue and devastating impact . . . at the heart of Beholder are secrets, damaging love and complex mother-daughter relationships ― Sunday Times, South Africa\nCora carries secrets her daughter can’t know.
Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.
Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.\nAngel is working in a wolf sanctuary in Canada when an abandoned dogis brought in– a dog she knows. The dog’s owner is missing, but has he been caught out in a blizzard or has something more sinister caught up with him?\nCora is running from a dangerous man. Attempting to bury her emotions (fear and anguish) in her art has brought her controversy all her career, but the truth behind her paintings could expose more than a model.
Freya is close with her mother but trying to build a life of her own. While searching for answers, she has her own reasons for trying to unearth her mother’s history.\nOne act of violence sets the three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth. In a nail-biting thriller set between the scorched red soil of South Africa, the pitiless snowfields of Canada and the chilly lochsides of western Scotland, each woman must contend with the spectres of male violence, sexual abuse and the choices we each make to keep our souls.