page-turner

The Guardian's Anthony Cummins said the book was "truly wonderful – a tender, funny page-turner about the derangements of grief, and Rooney’s richest treatment yet of messy romantic entanglements".

Edward Berger adapts Robert Harris’ 2016 page-turner employing the same propulsive editing technique and bombastic score that made his last movie, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a hit with audiences, awards voters and earplug salespeople.

Indeed, even egregious perpetuation of the status quo is rarely a page-turner.

Pearse has written another intriguing page-turner.

Chika Unigwe’s touching page-turner “On Black Sisters Street” and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s gripping “Americanah” offer different treatments of this subject of movement.