The Child Who
A Novel
by Simon Lelic
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Pub Date Feb 28 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Penguin Group (USA) | Penguin Books
Description
A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year- old Daniel Blake stands accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl. But who is truly responsible when one child kills another? As Curtice sets out to defend the indefensible, he soon finds himself pitted against an enraged community calling for blood. When the buildup of pressure takes a sinister turn, he fears for his wife and young daughter's safety. Must he choose between his family and the life of a damaged child? With piercing psychological insight, Lelic examines a community's response to a hideous crime.
Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Assocaition's Gold Dagger award fro Best Novel of the Year and the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller.
Advance Praise
"British author Lelic follows his acclaimed debut, A Thousand Cuts, with an equally gripping psychological thriller also inspired by a horrific real-life crime. Lelic dares to make his lead less than an Atticus Finch... and the plot unfolds in a way few readers will anticipate." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"By page three, Simon Lelic's harrowing and haunting novel THE CHILD WHO has you utterly in its snares. A daring writer but also a deeply open-hearted one, he renders his flawed but sympathetic characters with the most tender of hands, heightening the tale's suspense and drawing us even closer." -Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Everything
The Guardian (UK) called Lelic an, "agile, perceptive writer" and asked, "Could this be Lelic's breakthrough book? It deserves to be."
"THE CHILD WHO is a quietly excellent legal thriller which, unusually, does not rely on the tension of a jury's approaching verdict." -The Times (UK)
"A provincial solicitor finds his world shaken to the core when he has to defend a 12-year-old boy accused of murdering a young female schoolmate. Fascinating moral issues are played out from a nevertheless removed angle." -The Daily Mirror (UK)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780143120919 |
| PRICE | $15.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
