by Donna Tartt (Author)
Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has moved to another city, and her sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. Inspired by Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin's murderer and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dark and dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 592
Edition: 21st birthday celebratory ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0747590060
ISBN 13: 9780747590064
Book Overview: Winner of the prestigious WH Smith Literary Award 2003 Published as part of the Bloomsbury 21st Birthday Celebrations Includes reading group guide