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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jun 7, 2018 | 9780751571172 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 7, 2018 | 9781405539180 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 7, 2018 | 9780751571165 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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A standalone novel from Christobel Kent, bestselling author of The Loving Husband
Rose Fell's friends think she's taking a big risk when she leaves the security of home and career to move to the beautiful but isolated village of Grosso, near Genoa. But after a year of emotional turmoil Rose no longer has any ties back home, and she relishes the challenges of a new start.
Making a home, however, in the ravishing, haunted landscape of Italy's Riviera coast turns our to be lonelier than Rose had anticipated. And it is only when she is asked to write a profile on one of her reclusive neighbours, the once-glamorous film star Elvira Vitale, that Rose feels her new life is really beginning.
But when a young girl's body is found on the local beach, and the following day Elvira's hard-working cleaner, Ania, goes missing, Rose finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation that threatens the idyll she has worked so hard to establish.
Praise for The Summer House
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Kent is an extremely fine writer and makes terrific use in particular of the Fens' waterlogged, empty landscape in which secrets can be easily buried if never quite forgotten...Terrifyingly good - Metro
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Atmospheric and psychologically acute throughout - Sunday Times
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Christobel Kent is one of our most assured thriller writers. The Loving Husband is a perfectly paced and plotted novel - Good Housekeeping
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Brilliant...A spooky, gripping and affecting story - Louise Doughty
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Atmospheric and eerily menacing, this cracking psychological thriller demands to be read with all the lights on - Psychologies on The Crooked House
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Christobel Kent is a brilliant writer - India Knight
Christobel Kent
Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.
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