Tall Oaks
The award-winning first novel from the bestselling author of ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK
Format:Paperback
Publisher:twenty7
Published:8th Sep '16
Should be back in stock very soon
Gripping yet hilarious, suspenseful and sad - a brilliant debut for fans of Fargo, The Dry, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and Noah Hawley.
Gripping yet hilarious, suspenseful and sad - a brilliant debut for fans of Twin Peaks and The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair.
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK AND WE BEGIN AT THE END.
Tall Oaks is an idyllic small town, until the disappearance of a young child throws the tight-knit community into crisis.
Jess Monroe, the boy's distraught mother, is simultaneously leading the search and battling her own grief and self-destructive behaviour. Her neighbours watch on, their sympathy masking a string of dark secrets.
This is a small town where nothing is as it seems, and everyone has something to hide. And as the investigation draws towards a climax, prepare for a devastating final twist . . .
Dark, full of suspense and packed with twists, this brilliant new thriller is like nothing you've read before.
PRAISE FOR TALL OAKS:
'An absolute delight . . . Highly original' LAURA WILSON, GUARDIAN
'Completely blew me away'LISA HALL
'One of the best books I've read this year' JO SPAIN
'Chris Whitaker builds an entire town in the reader's head and masterfully inhabits it with comic, poignant, gripping life. Tall Oaks becomes a part of you' DAVID WHITEHOUSE
'It's rare that a novel can be both brilliantly comic and tragic, and balance the two so effortlessly' SUN
'A gripping debut' MAIL ON SUNDAY
Noir has an anarchic new voice * Sarah Hilary *
A brilliant, beautiful, sad, funny book . . . It made me laugh, but it also made me cry more than any other book I've read this year * Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths *
Tall Oaks is a pleasingly unusual mixture of psychological thriller and screwball comedy from a young writer who is clearly not afraid to take risks . . . its combination of verve, humour and pathos make it well worth a read. An absolute delight . . . highly original -- Laura Wilson * The Guardian *
A perpetuallyfascinating read * Heat *
It's rare that a novel can be both brilliantly comic and tragic, and balance the two so effortlessly but this tale does exactly that - with a tense rollercoaster of a story. A fine debut -- Jade Craddock * Sun *
ISBN: 9781785770302
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight: 258g
368 pages