Girl A: The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller, an astonishing new crime thriller debut novel from the biggest literary fiction voice of 2021

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But the vast flats of the east Midlands defeat her, and her captor drives up in a tractor to take her back to his tumbledown cottage. I’ve seen this one doing the rounds as well, I was in two minds about it, but I think I’ll skip it after reading this, sounds like there are much better options out there.

I thought this set-up worked very well, both as a look at family dynamics but also as a view into Lex’s damaged psyche. In the evidence that they showed the public, the family had a semi normal life, going to school etc. At a narrative level, however, this slender 84-minute drama nonetheless sags a little, occasionally feeling like a short film concept filled out with vivid texture alone. The children having been adopted by different families, have deep wounds, and Lexi, now a successful lawyer, has had little if any contact with them. But Kieran hasn’t come home for years – a choice he made as a teenager had devastating consequences, ones that still echo through his family’s life and the lives of the town’s inhabitants.A meno che la risposta non sia la facilità con cui ha venduto il suo primo libro, questo, e a quali cifre, best seller internazionale dopo solo quattro o cinque mesi dalla prima uscita, e una serie tv già in sviluppo. This is an extremely well written multilayered debut which via Lexi’s narrative examines how characters survive childhood trauma in varying ways. Dean says: “Ethan really behaves questionably, both in the house and after, in the way he manipulates the press attention. There are chapters about each sibling, all told through Lex’s POV, set both in the present day and in flashbacks that reveal what happened to lead their parents to commit such terrible acts against their own children.

This is a disturbing novel about a girl who survived terrible abuse in a ‘house of horrors’ and as an adult is still suffering from the trauma of it.But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer. Lex is known as Girl A, the first child to escape her parents ‘House of Horrors’ and lead the police to discover her siblings, chained and starved.