by Lauren Beukes (Author)
The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. 'GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived' (The Times). "It's not my fault. It's yours. You shouldn't shine. You shouldn't make me do this." THE GIRL WHO WOULDN'T DIE Kirby is lucky she survived the attack. She is sure there were other victims were less fortunate, but the evidence she finds is ...impossible. HUNTING A KILLER WHO SHOULDN'T EXIST Harper stalks his shining girls through the years - and cuts the spark out of them. But what if the one that got away came back for him?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: 0
Publisher: Harper
Published: 29 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 0007464584
ISBN 13: 9780007464586
Prizes: Shortlisted for CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2013.
`A powerful thriller - imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading' The Times
`I'm all over it' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
`Brilliant. A book about the duel of two fabulously realized characters. A triumph' Independent
`Clever story, smart prose' Stephen King
`Extremely creepy' Mail on Sunday (`Must Reads')
`Very smart, wholly original, completely kick-ass' William Gibson
`Engrossing as it is original, as rewarding as it is challenging. Superb - a beautifully layered work of fiction. Take the time to read this, it's mesmerizing' Sun
`Utterly original, beautifully written. This is something special' Tana French, author of In The Woods
`Brilliant. Forget GONE GIRL, now it's all about THE SHINING GIRLS' Observer
`Disturbing, smart and beautifully written' Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus
`This year's must-read' Stylist
`A new kind of thriller. A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning murder story. It shines' Matt Haig, author of The Humans
Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist.
She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in a fantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Her previous works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in Cape Town under corporate apartheid.
She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for Disney UK and Millimages in France.
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