The Wych Elm: The Sunday Times bestseller - Softcover

French, Tana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241379539 ISBN 13: 9780241379530

Publisher: Penguin, 2019

Synopsis

From the writer whose novels inspired the BBC's Dublin Murders TV series...

'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES

'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH

'Dark and twisty' SUNDAY TIMES

'Mesmerising' GILLIAN FLYNN

'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN
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WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?

One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.

But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.

As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.

A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.
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'This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' Guardian

'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' Harlan Coben

'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' Sunday Times

'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent' Stephen King

'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' Gillian Flynn

'This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' Erin Kelly

'The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists 'Observer

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Review:

A truly great writer (Gillian Flynn)

The Wych Elm is her best novel yet (Erin Kelly)

Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable

My favourite novel of last year (Sophie Hannah)

Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent (Stephen King)

A masterpiece (John Boyne)

The finest crime writer around right now (Mail on Sunday)

One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History...impossible to put down (The Times)

The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists (Observer)

Her storytelling skills are incredible (Sarra Manning Red)

About the Author:

Tana French is the award-winning, Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place and The Trespasser. She has won many awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and IVCA Clarion awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actress at Trinity College Dublin before becoming a writer. She lives in Dublin with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241379539
• ISBN 13: 9780241379530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528