Fifty Days

High above the city, in a deserted apartment block, a beautiful ex-porn star is living alone. Gest has only fifty days to complete her self-imposed task. Her only contact with the outside world is through the Candy Girl, who has been hired to help with her work. But day by day self-containment becomes less possible. As time runs out, Gest is aware of a shadowy figure watching her from the opposite building.

‘Sensual, monstrous and bewitching… Quigley’s prose imparts constant shocks of lyricism, intensity and acuity.’
– The Observer

‘With her spare, elegant pacing, Sarah Quigley creates a cool and distant/not-distant city where love and grief combine in a dangerously alluring mix.’
– Stella Duffy

‘Gripping… Quigley successfully portrays the knotty nature of relationships.’
– Time Out

‘Quigley’s writing often has an obscure poetic quality… startlingly evocative…’
– Pavement

‘A powerful complex novel.’
– The Press

‘Unique use of lyrical language and imagery.’
– NZ Herald

‘Experimental, striking and interesting.’
– Dominion Post