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The crooked house

"Alison lives her life under the radar. She has no ties, no home, and she spends her days at a backroom publishing job. Which is how she wants it. Because Alison used to be a teenager named Esme, who lived in a dilapidated house by a bleak estuary with her parents and three siblings. One night, some...

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Main Author: Kent, Christobel
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition:First American edition.
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Families > Death > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Villages > Fiction.
Homecoming > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Summary:"Alison lives her life under the radar. She has no ties, no home, and she spends her days at a backroom publishing job. Which is how she wants it. Because Alison used to be a teenager named Esme, who lived in a dilapidated house by a bleak estuary with her parents and three siblings. One night, something unspeakable happened in the house, and Alison emerged the only survivor. In order to escape from the horror she witnessed, she moved away from her village, changed her name, and cut herself off from her past. Only now her boyfriend invites her to a wedding in her old hometown, and she decides that if she's going to have any chance of overcoming the trauma of what happened, she'll have to confront it"--Amazon.com.
Physical Description:357 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780374131821 (hardcover)
0374131821 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Christobel Kent was born in London and was educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London, and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex, with her father, stepmother, three siblings, and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.

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