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Girl Unknown

The unputdownable SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER with a heart stopping twist . . .

Karen Perry

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
01 December 2016
'Families don't just come apart because a thread has loosened. The break when it comes is sharp, brutal. It takes ripping and hacking to sever those ties.'

When Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and announces that she is his daughter, he is left reeling. Suddenly his family - imperfect, flawed, but working - is trying to find space for someone new.

But Zoe's stories don't quite add up and lies become indistinguishable from truths. The family struggle to make sense of whether she is a sister, a daughter, a friend, an enemy. But no one could have expected where it all might end.

Because they have let into their home a girl that they do not know. And now everything they have built has begun to violently, determinedly, break apart.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   277g
ISBN:   9781405920308
ISBN 10:   1405920300
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Karen Perry is the pen name of crime writing duo Paul Perry and Karen Gillece who both live in Ireland. Can You Keep A Secret? is their latest novel and follows Girl Unknown, Only We Know and The Boy That Never Was which was selected for the Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club. All three were Sunday Times bestsellers.

Reviews for Girl Unknown: The unputdownable SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER with a heart stopping twist . . .

Praise for Girl Unknown * - * Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page -- Liz Nugent, bestselling author of * Lying in Wait * Karen Perry writes intense psychological thrillers that explore emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy, and this may be their best yet -- Bestselling author Tana French in the * Irish Independent, Books of the Year * Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page. * The Irish Independent * This story of psychological attrition builds to an incredibly tense finale - before delivering an amazing final twist, Riveting stuff * Sunday Mirror * Taunt, tense psycho-gripper * Sunday Sport * A profoundly disturbing, beautifully written story . . . An unputdownable novel that deftly examines the cost of misguided compassion, leading to a stunning conclusion you won't see coming. Karen Perry delivers again -- Michelle Richmond, author of * The Marriage Pact * Loved it * Lucy Mangan * Praise For Karen Perry * - * Stunning * Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club * I shot through this in one sitting. Like Gone Girl, it's told alternately by a husband and his wife. At the very beginning, something very shocking happens . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages * Evening Standard * Beautifully written, tense and twisty tale * Sunday Mirror * The book is beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations * Best Crime Fiction of 2015, The Telegraph * This is an intense and subtle story with some wonderfully poetic passages and a character driven plot which becomes more compelling as the sense of momentum gathers and the true version of events is slowly revealed. Gripping stuff * Sunday Mirror *


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