A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB FAVOURITE
AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON
'Sophisticated, suspenseful, unsettling' Lee Child
'Grips like a vice' Daily Mail
'Compulsive' Rosamund Lupton
'Moving, insightful' Guardian
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Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he is introduced to Sebastian, an eleven-year-old accused of murdering an innocent young boy.
As he plunges into the muddy depths of Sebastian's troubled home life, Daniel thinks back to his own childhood in foster care - and to Minnie, the woman whose love saved him, until she, too, betrayed him so badly that he cut her out of his life.
But what crime did Minnie commit that made Daniel disregard her for fifteen years? And will Daniel's identification with a child on trial for murder make him question everything he ever believed in?
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'One of the most readable, emotionally intense novels of the year' Richard & Judy Book Club
'It kept me up all night and guessing the whole way through' Jenny Colgan
'A page-turner with real emotional depth' Daily Express
'Moving and suspenseful' Joyce Carol Oates
'Absorbing' Company
'Will touch your heart, even as it leaves you unsettled' Hallie Ephron
'Outstanding' Daily Record
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- ISBN10 074995728X
- ISBN13 9780749957285
- Publish Date 30 August 2012 (first published 27 August 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 January 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Piatkus Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 480
- Language English