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Seeking light in the world’s darkest corners reveals inner truths.

Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel

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    384 pages

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    29 January 2018

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Summary

I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.

Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward.

With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781782065036
ISBN-10:1782065032
Author:Thomas Cook
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Quercus Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:29 January 2018
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

Cook writes with a tender precision … a stunning and revelatory book that will haunt you for months to come

Cook writes movingly, perceptively, fulfilling his assertion that “there is much to be gained where much has been lost” - Irish Times

Gripping, beautifully written, surprising and devastating - Harlan Coben

Thomas H Cook writes like a wounded angel - Peter Straub

Subtle, intelligent, full of surprises, as frighteningly mysterious as mysteries are supposed to be - Independent

Every Thomas H Cook novel is a subtle mind game … positively haunting - New York Times

Cook remains one of the most accomplished writers in the crime/thriller genre - Financial Times

Cook’s style is very quiet, reminiscent of Kazuo Ishiguro in its subtlety and understatedness - Historical Novel Society

One of the best at what he does - Publishers Weekly

About The Author

Thomas Cook

Thomas H Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been a college English teacher and a book review editor, but is best known as a hugely popular crime writer. He is the winner of the Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair and has been shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award. He lives in Cape Cod and New York City. Tragic Shores is his first non-fiction book.

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