When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. Her novel reads like top-notch psychological suspense.This is a page-turner from a very talented writer, and the result is a crowd-pleaser.Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.

This novel will change that.Her ambitious new novel, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, is part fast-paced thriller, part quiet meditation on the nature of God., Millet weaves a satisfying cat and mouse game. the Pulitzer finalist's philosophical fireworks add layers of energy and mystery., Sweet Lamb of Heaven confounded me, delightfully so.I have little patience with literary novels that claim to have the propulsive momentum of a thriller, yet Millet pulls it off.It is Anna's voice-cool, intelligent, passionate, contradictory-that makes this novel so affecting.ow I missed it when it was gone, how I yearned for it to speak to me again., Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. Millet has a knack for planting plainspoken, world-weary narrators in otherworldly circumstances, and Anna is one of her sharpest, most intriguingly philosophical creations., repare to be surprised by more than plot twists.

Millet's fine prose as rich with fresh imagery as it is open-minded to life's hidden possibilities., A peculiar, stirring thriller. A feat of genre-breaking., Operating, as always, on multiple levels with artistic panache, emotional precision, and profound intent, Millet transforms a violent family conflict into a war of cosmic proportions over nothing less than life itself., A rare pleasure to read. This may be her most beguiling and accessible creation yet., We didn't know we needed a metaphysical thriller, but here Millet is with a fine one. Unpredictable in the best sense, Millet's eye-opening stories and conceptions are irresistibly interesting. A winner., Millet evinces a rare capacity to surprise and fascinate readers.

sneaks in some high-minded themes (the nature of reality, the fragility of human connection) without distracting one iota from the suspense. By novel's end.the stakes have been raised through the roof., ddictive, unsettling. Novel so eerie, so chilling and provocative, that you might find yourself rethinking everything you thought you knew about language, belief, and where our human race might be going., e have a real thriller on our hands.part of a higher-stakes game being played by Millet, one that will ultimately, unabashedly touch on time, beauty, horror, God, demons and the very nature of being.

Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet