The most thought-provoking thriller of the year, for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver.
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The most thought-provoking thriller of the year, for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver.
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When tragedy strikes in a small Scottish village, everyone in the community is affected.
Most people believe one child is to blame for what happened.But could a young boy really be responsible? And how far will his parents go to protect him?'Brilliant, but as dark as hell. The British version of Daniel Woodrell' - METRO'God, this is dark. A study of guilt and grief' - DAILY MAIL'A very thought-provoking read' - THE SUNCritic Reviews
“[Gornell's] admirable single-mindedness and cool nerve are allied to a highly developed prose style which effectively conjures up a mood of darkness, intense cold and moral ambiguity - one in which nature itself feels complicit in the actions of the people. It is genuinely gripping”
Brilliant, but as dark as hell. The British version of Daniel Woodrell - METRO
God, this is dark. A study of guilt and grief - DAILY MAILA very thought-provoking read - THE SUNConjures up a mood of darkness, intense cold and moral ambiguity... Genuinely gripping - THE HERALDStunning. Macabre, unsettling and beautifully poetic - BRIAN CONAGHAN, Costa Award winning author of THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHERAbout the Author
Barry Gornell was born in Liverpool and now lives on the West Coast of Scotland. He is a novelist/screenwriter, ex fire-fighter, truck driver and bookshop manager. His short films Sonny's Pride and The Race were broadcast on STV. Graduating from the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Masters programme in 2008, he was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Bursary in 2009. His short fiction has been published in The Herald newspaper, Let's Pretend, 37 stories about (in)fidelity, Gutter 03 and Gutter 04. The Healing of Luther Grove was his first novel followed by The Wrong Child, which was originally published by Scottish press Freight Books in 2016.
When tragedy strikes in a small Scottish village, everyone in the community is affected.Most people believe one child is to blame for what happened.But could a young boy really be responsible? And how far will his parents go to protect him?'Brilliant, but as dark as hell. The British version of Daniel Woodrell' - METRO 'God, this is dark. A study of guilt and grief' - DAILY MAIL 'A very thought-provoking read' - THE SUN
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