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The Confession of Stella Moon
Shelley Day
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Description for The Confession of Stella Moon
Paperback. Because Dark Secrets Don't Decompose. A black, brooding tale of matricide and the macabre. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 172.
1977: A killer is released from prison and returns ‘home’ - a decaying, deserted boarding house choked with weeds and foreboding. Memories of strange rituals, gruesome secrets and shame hang heavy in the air, exerting a brooding power over young Stella Moon. She is eager to restart her life, but first she must confront the ghosts of her macabre family history and her own shocking crime. Guilt, paranoia and manipulation have woven a tangled web of truth and lies. All is ambiguous. Of only one thing is she certain... Stella Moon killed her own mother.
1977: A killer is released from prison and returns ‘home’ - a decaying, deserted boarding house choked with weeds and foreboding. Memories of strange rituals, gruesome secrets and shame hang heavy in the air, exerting a brooding power over young Stella Moon. She is eager to restart her life, but first she must confront the ghosts of her macabre family history and her own shocking crime. Guilt, paranoia and manipulation have woven a tangled web of truth and lies. All is ambiguous. Of only one thing is she certain... Stella Moon killed her own mother.
Product Details
Publisher
Saraband
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Glasgow, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910192412
SKU
V9781910192412
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About Shelley Day
Shelley Day has been a litigation lawyer, academic psychologist and research professor. She began writing fiction in 2007 and her short stories have appeared in anthologies, online and in newspapers and magazines, including New Writing Scotland. ‘The Confession of Stella Moon’, her first novel, won the Andrea Badenoch Prize and was shortlisted for the Charles Pick Fellowship when it was ... Read more
Reviews for The Confession of Stella Moon
“A timely and intelligent book. This work has passion, insight and a real understanding of both risk and mercy, Shelley Sclater delicately explores the tangled layers of family grief and guilt and what it is to be a daughter.” –
AL Kennedy “Shelley Day’s voice is exciting and unique ... and her fiction thematically rich.”
Jackie Kay MBE ... Read more
AL Kennedy “Shelley Day’s voice is exciting and unique ... and her fiction thematically rich.”
Jackie Kay MBE ... Read more