Tall Bones
When Emma leaves her friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again.
What happens next in Whistling Ridge is so much more than the story of a missing girl.
It's a story of secrets and shame, regrets and rage, love and lies. For Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town, peeling away the layers of its secret past. Even within Abi's own family there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fiery preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence both unsettles and excites those around him.
Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage. All it will take is just one spark...the truth of what happened that night at the Tall Bones.
Review
This is a striking first novel, a chilling insight into an oppressive world, where bad thoughts and bad deeds ripple just below the surface, out of sight. ― Alison Flood, OBSERVER
Fast paced and moving. ― LITERARY REVIEW
Beautifully written and very moving, this is an assured debut. ― Laura Wilson, GUARDIAN
One of the most exciting debuts of the year. ― SUNDAY EXPRESS
Spellbinding and darkly beautiful.... intricately plotted and exquisitely written, Tall Bones is a stunning debut. ― WOMEN & HOME
Cleverly written, Anna Bailey's debut shines a light on the darker and more oppressive side of small-town society. ― INDEPENDENT
Both menacing and haunting, a compelling and atmospheric debut. ― DAILY MAIL
The best kind of small-town crime novel... one that drips with atmosphere. Bailey has penned a dark and compulsive literary crime-drama about love, guilt, trauma, intolerance and the consequences of religious devotion... an intricately weaved and haunting story that will stay with you for days after. ― CULTUREFLY
Bailey writes with perfect poise. She is destined for great things - I feel it in my bones. ― SAGA magazine
One of the most exciting debuts of the year. ― OK magazine
With Tall Bones, Anna Bailey bursts onto the scene with a wonderfully haunting debut. Small-town intrigue, exquisitely drawn. ― JANE HARPER, author of The Dry and The Lost Man
Anna Bailey's debut is irresistible, a compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets. ― PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train
An intricate and compelling thriller, beautifully nuanced and wonderfully claustrophobic. Brilliant. ― SJ WATSON, author of Before I Go to Sleep
'A clever, twisting debut about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.'
'Anna Bailey writes like a dream about teenage love and lust, the terror of knowledge and the claustrophobia of families and of small towns.Tall Bones is as brutal, as bittersweet, as tender and as tense as first love itself.' ― EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths
Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town and I felt so strongly about some of the characters that I had to check the ending to make sure they were ok! Extremely well written... fantastic. ― HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange
Its portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible. Bailey understands that the dynamics that drive small-town relationships are the same the world over. ― VAL McDERMID
A terrific debut about guilt, secrets and complex family dynamics - the writing is vivid & assured: Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch. ― LUCY ATKINS, author of Magpie Lane
Bleak and haunting, Emma's troubled path to where the truth lies will carry the reader's soul along in both moving and compassionate ways. ― Maxim Jakubowski, CRIME TIME
Brilliant! Could not put it down. It's utterly gripping and beautifully written. ― KATIE FFORDE
Vividly captures a simmering atmosphere of suspicion and repression. ― IRISH INDEPENDENT
Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets. Anna writes beautifully and it was so refreshing to experience a different voice - a stunning debut that delivers on every level. Reminded me of Jane Harper's The Dry. ― RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer
Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets and the dark, shameful underbelly of small town life. ― TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop At Nothing
About the Author
Anna Bailey was born in 1995 and grew up in Gloucestershire, before going on to study Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She lived in Texas and Colorado before returning to the UK and enrolling on a course with Curtis Brown Creative, where she wrote her first novel, Tall Bones, inspired by her experience of small-town America
Podrobnosti
| Autor |
Anna Bailey |
|---|---|
| Vydavatel |
Penguin |
| Jazyk | anglicky |
| Vazba | měkká |
| Počet stran | 352 |
| Formát | 12,7 × 19,8 cm |
| EAN | 9781529176452 |
| Rok vydání | 2022 |
| Edice |
Detektivy a thrillery Dobrodružné, válečné, historické romány Současná beletrie |
Autor
Anna Bailey
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