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Grasshopper is an enthralling, chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine

''They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon''

When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon - a gargantuan electrified grasshopper - Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London''s rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there - and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

Grasshopper is a modern crime masterpiece that will have you

Grasshopper

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    A Paperback by Barbara Vine

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 5 March 2001
      ISBN-13 9780140293029
      978-0140293029
      ISBN-10 0140293027
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      Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Grasshopper is an enthralling, chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine

      ''They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon''

      When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

      In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon - a gargantuan electrified grasshopper - Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London''s rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there - and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

      Grasshopper is a modern crime masterpiece that will have you

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