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Sophie Loubiere - The Stone Boy - 9781847445834 - KEA0000006
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The Stone Boy

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Description for The Stone Boy Paperback. A dark psychological thriller by an award-winning French author. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy with minor shelf wear

When the elderly Madame Préau returns to her own house after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighbourhood has changed. A new family has moved in next door and, from her window, she watches their three children playing in the garden after school.

Two of the children seem perfectly healthy, but Madame Préau is struck by the third child, who seems listless and stands apart from the others. When she reports this to social services, they refuse to believe her. Cut off some years ago from her own grandson, she begins a mission to help this boy, even when those around her start to fear for her sanity.

The Stone Boy is an award-winning and darkly atmospheric psychological thriller from a critically acclaimed French author. Packed with shocking twists and turns that will appeal to fans of Barbara Vine and Erin Kelly, Madame Préau's story will hold you entranced until the very last page.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Trapdoor
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847445834
SKU
KEA0000006
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sophie Loubiere
Sophie Loubiere is the author of five novels, including The Stone Boy, for which she won the French Prix Lion Noir for crime writing in 2011.

Reviews for The Stone Boy
An absorbing psychological thriller.
Marcel Berlins - The Times
Translated in a deliciously forthright style by Nora Mahony, The Stone Boy mischievously toys with the reader's expectations, blending elements from the traditional mystery tale with those of the paranormal...The irascible and irrepressible Madame Préau makes for a delightfully ambiguous protagonist, and Loubiere deftly plots a compelling tale that is as poignantly heartbreaking as it is thrilling.
Irish Times
A thoroughly menacing psychological thriller.
Morning Star
On the evidence of this atmospheric and complex thriller, France is shaping up as a font of impressive new crime writers specialising in unorthodox and genuinely unsettling narratives.
Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
A beautiful narrative, and stylistically fascinating
Mystery People

Goodreads reviews for The Stone Boy


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