The Wych Elm: The Sunday Times bestseller

The Wych Elm: The Sunday Times bestseller

by TanaFrench (Author), Tana French (Author)

Synopsis

'For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything on the other luminous and untouchable.'

One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.

But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.

As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.

A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.

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More Information

Format: hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Published:

ISBN 10: 0241379504
ISBN 13: 9780241379509
Book Overview: A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.

Media Reviews
The new Tartt...every bit as good as The Secret History * The Times *
Absolutely mesmerizing -- GILLIAN FLYNN
Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent -- STEPHEN KING
Inspires cultic devotion in readers...most crime fiction is diverting; French's is consuming * The New Yorker *
French is a poet of mood and a master builder of plots -- Maureen Corrigan * The Washington Post *
Author Bio
Tana French is the award-winning andNew York Times bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place and The Trespasser. She has won many awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and IVCA Clarion awards, theLA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actress at Trinity College Dublin before becoming a writer. She lives in Dublin with her family.