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The Wrong Child
On sale
6th September 2018
Price: £8.99
What if your child committed murder?
When tragedy strikes in a small Scottish village, everyone in the community is affected.
Most people believe one child is to blame for what happened.
But could a young boy really be responsible? And what lengths will his parents go to protect him?
THE WRONG CHILD is the most thought-provoking novel of 2018, perfect for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver and MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent.
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READERS ARE CALLING THE WRONG CHILD ‘UNFORGETTABLE’:
‘Amazing’ – Amazon 5* review
‘A great page-turner!‘ Amazon 5* review
‘Hopefully it will receive the wider audience it so richly deserves’ – Amazon 5* review
‘Challenges your notions and ideals of morality’ – Amazon review
‘Will stick with you long after you finish it!’ Amazon review
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What the critics are saying about THE WRONG CHILD:
‘A thought-provoking read’ – THE SUN
‘Genuinely gripping’ – THE HERALD
‘A study of guilt and grief’ – DAILY MAIL
‘Brilliant, but dark as hell’ – METRO
‘Astonishing’ – PSYCHOLOGIES
‘So visceral it seeps into your pores’ – DAILY RECORD
‘Stunning. Macabre, unsettling and beautifully poetic’ – BRIAN CONAGHAN, Costa Award winning author
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Reviews
A very thought-provoking read
Stunning. Macabre, unsettling and beautifully poetic
Reviews of the most thought-provoking thriller of the year, for fans of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver, BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty and MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent:
'Brilliant, but as dark as hell. The British version of Daniel Woodrell'
[An] uncompromising story of grief, anger, abandonment and decay
A deeply unsettling tale of loss, abandonment and revenge
[Gornell's] admirable single-mindedness and cool nerve are allied to a highly developed prose style which effectively conjures up a mood of darkness, intense cold and moral ambiguity - one in which nature itself feels complicit in the actions of the people. It is genuinely gripping
The Wrong Child is a startling and uncompromising story of grief and anger, of abandonment and decay. It's intense - darker than dark - but also original and beautiful
God, this is dark. A study of guilt and grief