Bridget Jones meets Twin Peaks in this black comedy about a woman's retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.
'I was hooked from the opening pages . . . it's laugh-out-loud horrible and perfectly nuts' Guardian
'This is a sharp, twisted, hilarious treasure of a book. Sort of Twin Peaks meets Bad Teacher that had me laughing, wincing and falling in love with the flawed and flawless narrator' Jess Kidd
Eleanor arrives in Talbingo - population 241 - looking for a fresh start. But 241 has recently become 240, because the town's schoolteacher has gone AWOL - presenting Eleanor with a chance to start again.
Escaping a life turned upside down, recovering from a bad break-up and illness, Eleanor thinks Talbingo might offer a regenerative form of solitude. What she finds is a remote cabin with no phone service or wifi and an alarming number of locks on the front door, which someone keeps knocking on late at night.
A disconcerting story of small-town life, The Bus on Thursday is a wicked, weird, wild ride.
'Hilarious . . . This witty, wise and rather demented novel occupies a strange, and possibly unique, space between screwball comedy, murder mystery and magical realism' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
'Funny, angry, feminist . . . [Barrett is] a masterly world-builder' New York Times Book Review
This is a sharp, twisted, hilarious treasure of a book. Sort of
Twin Peaks meets
Bad Teacher that had me laughing, wincing and falling in love with the flawed and flawless narrator
