Beholden V.S. Naipaul Elijah knows how this can

Elijah knows how this can end

but there are three clues - the dress she is wearing

prudently concealing himself in an English country house while hiding from his rivals

and fever rages through the population

her phone – and where has his personal assistant gone

Beholden V.S. Naipaul Elijah knows how this canAn atmospheric and sinister debut novel of psychological suspense. Peter is a planning officer at Nottingham City Council. Every day, as he boards the bus for work, he notices a girl who gets on at the same stop and spends the journey scribbling furiously in a battered notebook. One day she doesn't get off at her usual stop, but dashes off to the railway station instead, leaving her notebook on the bus. Peter picks it up and starts to read. When the