What Lies Within, 9780755392209
Paperback
Isolated family, escaped convict, dark secrets. Nature’s beauty hides evil.

What Lies Within

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    7 October 2013

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Summary

What Lies Within: A Moorland Enigma

Living on a secluded Devon farmhouse, Anna and her family have always embraced the wild beauty of the moor. But when a convict escapes from Dartmoor prison, their isolation morphs into a suffocating fear.

Anna’s anxiety for her children’s safety spirals, straining her relationship with her kind husband, Robert. Why does she harbor suspicions about her own son, Paul? Teenagers go through phases, but this feels different.

Elsewhere, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780755392209
ISBN-10:0755392205
Author:Tom Vowler
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Headline Book Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:7 October 2013
Weight:250g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

As unsettling as it is minutely imagined, this striking debut novel from Tom Vowler will give serious pause for thought to anyone considering downsizing for a cosy life in the countryside–Patrick GaleTaut and compelling, you won’t just read this book, you’ll devour it–Alex PrestonTom Vowler’s debut novel is a finely achieved work. Sensitively written and beautifully crafted, it explores sexual violence and the resilience of human tenderness, set against the austere beauty and underlying threat of Dartmoor…hard to put down, impossible to forget–Graham Mort

About The Author

Tom Vowler

An award-winning writer living in south-west England, Tom Vowler’s short story collection THE METHOD won the inaugural Scott Prize in 2010 and, in 2011, the Edge Hill Readers’ Prize.

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