'Tana French is one of those rare writers whose publication date you put in your diary.

'A spectacularly talented writer.' - Louise O'Neill, author of Asking for It 'French is a poet of mood and a master builder of plots.' - Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post 'Inspires cultic devotion in readers.most crime fiction is diverting French's is consuming.' - The New Yorker 'Absolutely mesmerizing.' - Gillian Flynn

'The new Tartt.every bit as good as The Secret History.' - The Times on The Secret Place I feel enriched having read it.' - AJ Finn 'Exquisite, magnificent - a dense, hypnotic novel from one of the greatest fiction writers of this century. The Wych Elm is her best novel yet.this mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time.' - Erin Kelly 'I drop everything for a new Tana French book - feign illness, cancel plans and miss deadlines - and it's always worth it. It's a book about identity, childhood, luck and family.I absolutely loved it.' - Gillian McAllister Really, it is not a crime novel: as ever, Tana's scope is so much broader than that. 'Gripping and suspenseful, with more twists than a rollercoaster The Wych Elm is a magnificent novel.' - John Boyne 'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent.' - Stephen King Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241379530 Number of pages: 528 Weight: 362 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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.īut not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.Īs detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.Ī 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. 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. Our Thriller of the Month for September 2019įor 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.

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