Just a Boy
'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent A gripping novel about family, loss and secrets, from the author of The Times bestselling sensation Can You Hear Me? The boy is almost eighteen and has a loving family. He's polite and well-educated, quiet but always smiling. When word spreads that he has broken into and stolen from a neighbour's house, his parents and sisters can't believe it. Then the unthinkable happens: an attack that will rip through the town and his family for years to come. Just a Boy is a gripping, incisive novel about secrets, adolescence and how we can love someone - a child, a partner - without ever knowing their mind. Praise for T he Times bestseller Can You Hear Me? 'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian 'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop