Little Face.: Culver Valley Crime Book 1 - Brossura

Hannah, Sophie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340921463 ISBN 13: 9780340921463

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time. On her eager return, she finds the front door open, her husband asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes into their baby's room and screams. 'This isn't our baby! Where's our baby?' Her increasingly hostile husband swears she must be either mad or lying, and the DNA test is going to take a week. One week later, before the test has been taken, Alice and the baby have disappeared. Run away, abducted, murdered? The police who dismissed her baby swap story must find out, and as they do they find dark incidents in David's past - like the murder of his ex-wife...

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Recensione:

Fascinating and original . . . beautifully written . . . outstandingly chilling (Spectator)

Quite brilliant - I was extremely impressed (The Times)

This may well turn out to be the detective novel of the year . . . A terrifying mystery of manipulation, counter-manipulation and, finally, astounding revelation - it's a haunting story told with bewitching skill. (Scotsman)

Chilling and completely gripping - I stayed up half the night to finish it. (Marie Claire)

She ranks among the best recent practitioners of light verse, sharing with Ewart fluency and a good ear, emulating Wendy Cope in her sly wit and blending an eye for the absurdities in human behaviour with compassion. (Alan Brownjohn, The Sunday Times)

'The language and atmosphere are high-quality stuff, and the portrait of a woman in the throes of post-natal depression will be a revelation to some, to others a reminder.' (Literary Review)

'This taut psychological thriller is full of heart-thumping suspense.' (Sainsbury's Magazine)

Sophie Hannah is a real star. (P J Kavanagh in the Daily Telegraph)

Sophie Hannah's comic fiction produces reams of entertaining moral sophistry. Her novels sparkle. (Independent)

'Sophie Hannah is nothing if not flexible. An awardwinning poet, she has also published short stories and can now add accomplished "thriller writer" to her list of achievements. On first impression, however, the plot of Little Face may appear borrowed: an unhinged mother gives birth to a darling child only to find, after the initial bonding, that someone has switched babies. That's the nightmare of Alice Fancourt, who returns home after her first outing in two weeks to find the door open, her husband David napping and someone else's child in the nursery. When a controlling mother-in-law and a suspicious policeman enter the plot, readers will realise something is afoot. Adding to the tension are fears surrounding the death of David's first wife, and the discovery of a family "tradition" of estranged children. But just when readers think the plot offers no surprises, Hannah wrong-foots them and works her way, at a heart-thumping pace, to a delicious ending. Unless she wants to try her (South China Morning Post)

Descrizione del libro:

'It's every mother's nightmare...' An extraordinary psychological suspense novel by a hugely talented author.

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• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340921463
• ISBN 13: 9780340921463
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368