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***FROM THE AUTHOR OF WE BEGIN AT THE END, 2020’s MOST CAPTIVATING AND UNFORGETTABLE READ, DESCRIBED BY RUTH JONES AS ‘SURELY DESTINED TO CONQUER THE WORLD’***’Noir has an anarchic new voice’ SARAH HILARY’A brilliant, beautiful, sad, funny book . . . also made me cry more than any other book I’ve read this year’ EMMA FLINTISN’T IT ABOUT TIME THAT YOU MADE A DATE TO VISIT TALL OAKS? Tall Oaks is an idyllic small town, until the disappearance of a young child throws the tight-knit community into crisis.Jess Monroe, the boy’s distraught mother, is simultaneously leading the search and battling her own grief and self-destructive behaviour. Her neighbours watch on, their sympathy masking a string of dark secrets.This is a small town where nothing is as it seems, and everyone has something to hide. And as the investigation draws towards a climax, prepare for a devastating final twist . . .Dark, full of suspense and packed with twists, this brilliant new thriller is like nothing you’ve read before. SEE WHAT THE WORLD IS ALREADY SAYING ABOUT THIS BRILLIANT DEBUT NOVEL’An absolute delight . . . Highly original’ LAURA WILSON, GUARDIAN’Completely blew me away’ LISA HALL’One of the best books I’ve read this year’ JO SPAIN’Chris Whitaker builds an entire town in the reader’s head and masterfully inhabits it with comic, poignant, gripping life. Tall Oaks becomes a part of you’ DAVID WHITEHOUSE’It’s rare that a novel can be both brilliantly comic and tragic, and balance the two so effortlessly’ SUN’A gripping debut’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
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When three-year-old Harry Monroe goes missing, Tall Oaks is the sort of community you’d expect to rally round and find him before the day is out. Someone must know something. But months later his desperate mother Jess is an increasingly isolated figure, still printing off posters of her son and putting them on display around the town with the police investigation apparently at a standstill. And it’s becoming quite clear that however well they all think they know each other, there are secrets tucked away that no one wants to see the light of day.
Weight | 0.269 kg |
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Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.1 cm |
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Cover | Paperback |
Pages | 360 |
Language | English |
Edition | Paperback original |
Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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