- Title:
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The Little Friend
- Written by:
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Donna Tartt
- Read by:
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Laurel Lefkow
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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19
- Duration:
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24 hours 22 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2016
- Available Date:
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April 01 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489029867
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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International bestseller
'Beautifully measured prose that sets the scene draws us into the extraordinary story that lingers long in the mind.'
The Observer
The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later, Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated.
So it is that Robin's sister Harriet – unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson – sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town's rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family's history of loss.
Filled with hairpin turns of plot, The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
'You leave the book mesmerised by the world ... Brilliant.'
The Irish Independent
'A dazzling tour de force.'
The Daily Mail
'Beautifully written and immaculately crafted ... even though there's humour, the tension is palpable. Unputdownable.'
Daily Mirror
'Harriet is one of the most engaging and rounded characters you are likely to find ... gorgeous, fluent, visual.'
The Times