The Shining Girls
$35.32
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2013
Summary
The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. ‘GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived’
“It’s not my fault. It’s yours. You shouldn’t shine. You shouldn’t make me do this.”
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature – it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his car…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780007464586 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0007464584 |
| Author: | Lauren Beukes |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘A powerful thriller – imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading’ The Times
‘I’m all over it’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
‘Brilliant. A book about the duel of two fabulously realized characters. A triumph’ Independent
‘Clever story, smart prose’ Stephen King
‘Extremely creepy’ Mail on Sunday (‘Must Reads’)
‘Very smart, wholly original, completely kick-ass’ William Gibson
‘Engrossing as it is original, as rewarding as it is challenging. Superb – a beautifully layered work of fiction. Take the time to read this, it’s mesmerizing’ Sun
‘Utterly original, beautifully written. This is something special’ Tana French, author of In The Woods
‘Brilliant. Forget GONE GIRL, now it’s all about THE SHINING GIRLS’ Observer
‘Disturbing, smart and beautifully written’ Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus
‘This year’s must-read’ Stylist
‘A new kind of thriller. A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning murder story. It shines’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans
Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist.
She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in a fantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Her previous works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in Cape Town under corporate apartheid.
She helped create South Africa’s first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for Disney UK and Millimages in France.
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