![]() ![]() The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (Bantam, £12. It would look great in a limited TV series on a streaming platform. The writer spent part of her twenties there and she evokes a breathtaking view of snow-covered mountain ranges seen through the sparkling windows of a high-end accommodation that most of us could never see the inside of. Le Sommet is a fictional luxury hotel converted from an abandoned sanatorium high in the real Alpine municipality of Crans-Montana. ![]() ![]() ![]() What Pearse absolutely has going for her is an incredible setting. It’s like Christie got distracted by a Resident Evil video game while pottering with Poirot. But smashing that with ultra-violent torture scenes carried out by a gas mask-wearing villain can sometimes be jarring. The enforced mixing of the super-rich with the middle and lower classes is straight out of any number of Christie books. Pearse lives in Devon, the writing home of Agatha Christie, so she can be forgiven for taking a little influence from her. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and. The Sanatorium, her debut, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a 1 Sunday Times bestseller, and was selected as a Reese's Book Club Pick. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT Sarah Pearse lives by the sea in South Devon with her husband and two daughters. Sarah Pearse grew up in Devon, England, and studied English literature and creative writing at the University of Warwick before completing a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism. ![]()
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