Tall Bones

£12.99

When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning.

Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi’s disappearance cracks open the facade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi’s 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 fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp.

Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark – the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones….

‘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

‘Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town… Extremely well written… fantastic.’ HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange

‘A clever, twisting debut, about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.’ FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine

‘Tall Bones is as brutal, as bittersweet, as tender and as tense as first love itself.’ EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths

‘Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets – a stunning debut that delivers on every level.’ RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer

‘Chilling and compulsive. Tall Bones is a dazzling debut.’ KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

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Description

Anna Bailey (Author)

Format:Hardback 352 pages
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Doubleday
ISBN:9780857527387
Published:1 Apr 2021
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery
Readership:General (US: Trade)
Weight:464g
Dimensions:145 x 226 x 35 (mm)

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