A Crime in the Neighborhood

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Suzanne Berne

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Penguin Books Ltd
27 February 2020

Crime & Mystery

The winner of the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction- a seductive story of suspicion, fear and moral corruption, set in seventies suburbia.

In the long hot summer of 1972, three events shattered the serenity of ten year old Marsha's life- her father ran away with her mother's sister Ada; Boyd Ellison, a young boy, was molested and murdered; and Watergate made the headlines.

Living in a world no longer safe or familiar, Marsha turns increasingly to 'the book of evidence' in which she records the doings of the neighbors, especially of shy Mr Green next door. But as Marsha's confusion and her murder hunt accelerate, her 'facts' spread the damage cruelly and catastrophically throughout the neighborhood.

By: Suzanne Berne
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780140273328
ISBN 10: 0140273328
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Suzanne Berne's first novel, A Crime in the Neighbourhood, won the 1999 Orange Prize. She is also the author of A Perfect Arrangement, The Ghost at the Table, Missing Lucile and The Dogs of Littlefield. Suzanne Berne lives with her husband and two daughters near Boston.

Reviews for A Crime in the Neighborhood: Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Marsha is the youngest of three: an observant and curious ten-year old who takes us through the tragic events of one summer in her life. A young boy who lives a few streets away goes missing. His murdered and raped body is discovered by his father early next morning. These dramatic events become alternately a focus and a backdrop for the other unresolved issues in Marsha's life: the departure of her inarticulate father after his affair with her mother's sister, her persecution at the hands of her twin siblings and her surveillance of the new next-door neighbour. A beautifully written, deceptively simple and absorbing debut, with not a flicker in pace or plausibility. Winner of the 1999 Orange Prize. (Kirkus UK)