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A Little Death

A Little Death

by Laura Wilson (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.31

  • Used

    Hardcover 2002

    $6.37
Synopsis

London, 1955. The bodies of three elderly recluses are found in a house in South Kensington. One of the victims is former society beauty Georgina Gresham, prime suspect in the notorious murder of her husband, James, almost thirty years earlier. Beside her lie the bodies of her brother Edmund and housekeeper Ada. The story behind these deaths takes us back to the late 1890s, to a prosperous and beautiful country house where children are playing in the garden. And then the youngest child, Freddie, is found with fatal head injuries ...Told through three narrators, this is a tight, claustrophobic piece of writing so authentic, so completely in period, that it's hard to believe it is not a true story.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 08 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0752834770
ISBN 13: 9780752834771
Book Overview: Published alongside Laura Wilson's latest novel, HELLO BUNNY ALICE Terrific new cover style for Laura Wilson A LITTLE DEATH was shortlisted the for CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award Laura Wilson always receives excellent reviews: 'Gripping ... Intelligent, absorbing and highly accomplished' LITERARY REVIEW 'This is a cunning book. It creeps up on the reader like someone pursuing a friend down a street with a view to patting them on the back and saying hello but instead giving them a heart attack ... a deceptively simple and compelling tale where the pathos is the fuel for real suspense' Frances Fyfield, SUNDAY EXPRESS 'The writing is graceful and intelligent, all the characters are well presented and distinct and one puts the book down eager for the next' SUNDAY TIMES 'Meticulously knitting together the many strands of an absorbing plot, Wilson effortlessly moves into the exclusive Rendell, Walters and Fyfield club' GUARDIAN 'The writing is spare and without a wasted word. This book has real class' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Author Bio
Laura Wilson was brought up in London and has degrees in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford and UCL, London. She has worked briefly and ingloriously as a teacher, and more successfully as an editor of non-fiction books. She has written history books for children and is interested in history, particularly of the recent past, painting and sculpture, uninhabited buildings, underground structures, cemeteries and time capsules. She lives in Islington. Her first novel A LITTLE DEATH was shortlisted for both the CWA Ellis Peters and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original. A THOUSAND LIES was shortlisted for the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger. THE LOVER won the 2004 Prix du Polar Europeen for Best Crime Novel of the Year In Translation and was also shortlisted for the 2004 Gold Dagger and the Ellis Peters Award. In 2008, she won the Ellis Peters Award with her novel STRATTON'S WAR.