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Pub Date 11 Feb 2013 | Archive Date 28 Oct 2015

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home since. And life has not been kinder to Bernard, her brother, who is now in the final months of a terminal illness. Realizing that he has so little time left, Bernard's gloom suddenly lifts. With no longer anything to lose, he becomes reckless - and murderous.

The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home...

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Advance Praise

A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince. --The Sunday Telegraph

This is tough, bloody stuff, but put together with a cunning intelligence. --The Sunday Times

For those with a taste for Georges Simenon or Patricia Highsmith, Garnier's recently translated oeuvre will strike a chord -- --The Independent

A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince. --The Sunday Telegraph

This is tough, bloody stuff, but put together with a cunning intelligence. --The Sunday Times

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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781908313164
PRICE £6.99 (GBP)

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