Birthday House

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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The year is 1955, the location picturesque Devon.In a house by the River Dart, schoolgirl Josephine Kennedy posts invitations to her twelfth birthday party - a party that never takes place.Horrific violence is committed that night in the family home, leaving all of its occupants dead.Based on a disturbing real-life crime, this compelling story explores Josephine's fate through the prism of friends and family - the victims and survivors who unwittingly influenced the events that led up to the tragedy.Josephine's best friend, Susan, is haunted by the secrets of the birthday house. Can she ever find a way of making peace with the past?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-06-24
Mått127 x 178 x 8 mm
Vikt148 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor150
FörlagSilverWood Books Ltd
ISBN9781781328798

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Jill Treseder was born in Hampshire and lived all her childhood in sight of the sea on the Solent and in Devon, Cornwall and West Wales. She now lives in Devon overlooking the River Dart.After graduating from Bristol with a degree in German, Jill followed careers in social work, management development and social research, obtaining a PhD from the School of Management at the University of Bath along the way.Since 2006 she has focused on writing fiction.

"An engaging, accomplished, structurally-bold examination of a Fifties family tragedy told from the points of view of all involved, The Birthday House is also a profound meditation on grief and trauma and how it can shape us for the whole of our lives." - Peter Stanford; "As always, Jill Treseder paints pictures in the air and brings her characters vividly to life. A beautifully written and captivating story of love and loss." - Ian Hobbs, Devon Book Club