My Sister's BonesAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 11 July 2017
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"Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read (and beats it for style). -- Observer (UK)
In the vein of Fiona Barton's The Widow and Rene Knight's Disclaimer, a psychological thriller about a war reporter who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death but becomes convinced that all is not well in the house next doorbut is what shes seeing real or a symptom of the trauma she suffered in Syria?
The One Person You Should Trust Is Lying to You
Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter, shes always in a place of conflict, writing about ordinary people in unimaginable situations. When her mother dies, Kate returns home from Syria for the funeral. But an incident with a young Syrian boy haunts her dreams, and when Kate sees a boy in the garden of the house next doora house inhabited by an Iraqi refugee who claims her husband is away and she has no childrenKate becomes convinced that something is very wrong.
As she struggles to separate her memories of Syria from the quiet town in which she grew upand also to reconcile her memories of a traumatic childhood with her sisters insistence that all was not as Kate remembersshe begins to wonder what is actually trueand what is just in her mind.
In this gripping, timely debut, Nuala Ellwood brings us an unforgettable damaged character, a haunting , humanizing look at the Syrian conflict, and a deeply harrowing psychological thriller that readers wont be able to put down.
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