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Book SynopsisWhat if your child committed murder?
When tragedy strikes in a small Scottish village, everyone in the community is affected.
Most people believe one child is to blame for what happened.
But could a young boy really be responsible? And what lengths will his parents go to protect him?
THE WRONG CHILD is the most thought-provoking novel of 2018, perfect for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver and MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent.
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READERS ARE CALLING THE WRONG CHILD ''UNFORGETTABLE'':
''Amazing'' - Amazon 5* review
''A great page-turner!'' Amazon 5* review
''Hopefully it will receive the wider audience it so richly deserves'' - Amazon 5* review
''Challenges your notions and ideals of morality'' - Amazon review
''Will stick with you long after you finish it!'' Amazon review
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Trade Review
Reviews of the most thought-provoking thriller of the year, for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver, BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty and MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent:
'Brilliant, but as dark as hell. The British version of Daniel Woodrell'
* METRO *
A very thought-provoking read * THE SUN *
God, this is dark.
A study of guilt and grief * DAILY MAIL *
A deeply unsettling tale of loss, abandonment and revenge * THE LIST *
[Gornell's] admirable single-mindedness and cool nerve are allied to
a highly developed prose style which effectively conjures up a mood of darkness, intense cold and moral ambiguity - one in which nature itself feels complicit in the actions of the people.
It is genuinely gripping * THE HERALD *
The Wrong Child is
a startling and uncompromising story of grief and anger, of abandonment and decay. It's intense - darker than dark - but also
original and beautiful * HELEN FITZGERALD, author of Viral, Dead Lovely and The Cry *
[An] uncompromising story of grief, anger, abandonment and decay * SCOTS MAGAZINE *
Stunning. Macabre, unsettling and
beautifully poetic * BRIAN CONAGHAN, Costa Award winning author of THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER *
