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The Wych Elm: The Sunday Times bestseller
Tana French
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Paperback.
'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH
'Dark and twisty' SUNDAY TIMES
'Mesmerising' GILLIAN FLYNN
'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN
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WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?
One night changes everything for Toby. 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. 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.
But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.
As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.
A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.
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'This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' Guardian
'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' Harlan Coben
'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' Sunday Times
'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent' Stephen King
'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist
'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' Gillian Flynn
'This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' Erin Kelly
'The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists 'Observer
From the writer whose novels inspired the BBC's Dublin Murders TV series...
'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH
'Dark and twisty' SUNDAY TIMES
'Mesmerising' GILLIAN FLYNN
'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN
________________________________________
WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?
One night changes everything for Toby. 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. 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.
But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.
As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.
A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.
________________________________________
'This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' Guardian
'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' Harlan Coben
'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' Sunday Times
'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent' Stephen King
'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist
'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' Gillian Flynn
'This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' Erin Kelly
'The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists 'Observer
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241379530
SKU
9780241379530
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tana French
Tana French is the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Wych Elm. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her family.
Reviews for The Wych Elm: The Sunday Times bestseller
A truly great writer
Gillian Flynn The Wych Elm is her best novel yet
Erin Kelly Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable My favourite novel of last year
Sophie Hannah Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent
Stephen King A masterpiece
John Boyne The finest crime writer around right now
Mail on Sunday
One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History...impossible to put down
The Times
The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists
Observer
Her storytelling skills are incredible
Sarra Manning
Red
Gripping and suspenseful, with more twists than a rollercoaster, The Wych Elm is a magnificent novel
John Boyne French offers a masterclass in unreliability . . . dissolving the boundaries between genre and literary fiction
Sunday Times
Her best book. Really, it is not a crime novel: as ever, Tana's scope is so much broader than that. It's a book about identity, childhood, luck and family...I absolutely loved it.
Gillian McAllister Inspires cultic devotion in readers...most crime fiction is diverting; French's is consuming
The New Yorker
A brilliant examination of male privilege and family secrets
What to Look Forward to in the World of Books 2019
Guardian
A darkly addictive story of family secrets
Best Books of 2019
i paper
Tana French's writing is lyrical but sharp, her eye for detail exquisite, her storytelling skills incredible - I need to read her backlist right away!
Sara Manning
Red Magazine
Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin
Lucy Mangan
Stylist
French is a poet of mood and a master builder of plots
Maureen Corrigan
The Washington Post
A spectacularly talented writer
Louise O'Neill, author of 'Asking for It' Tana French is one of those rare writers whose publication date you put in your diary. Her effortless verve, insight and black wit still glimmer from every page.
Kate Riordan, author of 'The Girl in the Photograph' A hugely satisfying door-stopper of a novel, full of ambiguity, nuance and building menace. To read French is to experience that sense of utter disorientation that comes from the ground shifting constantly beneath your feet. Totally absorbing
Tammy Cohen Tana French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns
New York Times
A beautifully written, highly intelligent meditation on family relationships, the human mind, social politics and much more, often leavened with good jokes
Sunday Express
Gillian Flynn The Wych Elm is her best novel yet
Erin Kelly Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable My favourite novel of last year
Sophie Hannah Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent
Stephen King A masterpiece
John Boyne The finest crime writer around right now
Mail on Sunday
One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History...impossible to put down
The Times
The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists
Observer
Her storytelling skills are incredible
Sarra Manning
Red
Gripping and suspenseful, with more twists than a rollercoaster, The Wych Elm is a magnificent novel
John Boyne French offers a masterclass in unreliability . . . dissolving the boundaries between genre and literary fiction
Sunday Times
Her best book. Really, it is not a crime novel: as ever, Tana's scope is so much broader than that. It's a book about identity, childhood, luck and family...I absolutely loved it.
Gillian McAllister Inspires cultic devotion in readers...most crime fiction is diverting; French's is consuming
The New Yorker
A brilliant examination of male privilege and family secrets
What to Look Forward to in the World of Books 2019
Guardian
A darkly addictive story of family secrets
Best Books of 2019
i paper
Tana French's writing is lyrical but sharp, her eye for detail exquisite, her storytelling skills incredible - I need to read her backlist right away!
Sara Manning
Red Magazine
Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin
Lucy Mangan
Stylist
French is a poet of mood and a master builder of plots
Maureen Corrigan
The Washington Post
A spectacularly talented writer
Louise O'Neill, author of 'Asking for It' Tana French is one of those rare writers whose publication date you put in your diary. Her effortless verve, insight and black wit still glimmer from every page.
Kate Riordan, author of 'The Girl in the Photograph' A hugely satisfying door-stopper of a novel, full of ambiguity, nuance and building menace. To read French is to experience that sense of utter disorientation that comes from the ground shifting constantly beneath your feet. Totally absorbing
Tammy Cohen Tana French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns
New York Times
A beautifully written, highly intelligent meditation on family relationships, the human mind, social politics and much more, often leavened with good jokes
Sunday Express