van der Hoogt Prize Nominated for the John Leonard Prize, National Book Critics Circle Original and promising.Ģ014 Anton Wachter Prize for Best First Novel Golden Book Owl Reader's Choice Award Opzij Feminist Literature Prize 2014 Lucy B. Told in the alternative voices of Ray and Iris, Girl in the Dark is a compulsive, page-turning thriller about lies, murder, and the tenacity of a family determined to stay together even as they are pulled apart at the most vulnerable seams.Īn intimate, often humorous exploration of the intertwining cycles of death, rebirth and coincidence through the eyes of an existential artist.Īn amazing game of mirrors. There is no question that Ray is odd and obsessive, unable to communicate like the rest of us. A man who is devoted to his tropical fish and who loves baking bread. Visiting Ray, she meets a man who looks heartbreakingly like her own son. Her older brother is autistic-and in prison for brutally murdering his neighbor and her daughter. What she discovers surprises-and horrifies-her. Why did her mother lie to her for her entire life? Why did she hide the existence of Ray Boelens from her?Ĭurious about this sibling she has never known, Iris begins to search for long-buried truths. She also has a brother-shocking news she uncovers by accident. 'Very funny' Jeremy Paxman Financial TimesĪn award-winning, internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut, riveting domestic drama with the compulsive intensity of The Good Girl, The Pocket Wife, and The Stranger, about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister’s fight to clear his name.Ī single mother and lawyer, Iris has a colorful caseload, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental mother.

A handbook of resistance for our time.' Sunday Express 'A story with a great deal of heart' Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project 'So much more than just a comedy' John Boyne If it's never too late to have fun, then can it ever be too late to meet the love of your life? Such anarchism infuriates the care home director but pleases Eefje, the woman who makes Hendrik's frail heart palpitate. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly.

This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¼ Years Old.

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