Skip to content
Three Days and a Life (Paperback)
  • Three Days and a Life (Paperback)
zoom

Three Days and a Life (Paperback)

(author), (translator)
4 Reviews Sign in to write a review
£9.99
Paperback 256 Pages
Published: 03/05/2018
Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99
  • In stock

Usually dispatched within 1-2 days

Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99
  • This item has been added to your basket

'Lemaitre is surely France's most elegant and imaginative crime writer' - Marcel Berlins, The Times 

Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business, and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking vanishing without trace of a young child.

The adults of the town are at a loss to explain the disappearance, but for Antoine, it all begins with the violent death of his neighbour's dog. From that one brutal act, his fate and the fate of his neighbour's six year old son are bound forever.

In the years following Remi's disappearance, Antoine wrestles with the role his actions played. As a seemingly inescapable net begins to tighten, breaking free from the suffocating environs of Beauval becomes a gnawing obsession. But how far does he have to run, and how long will it take before his past catches up with him again?

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9780857056658
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 184 g
Dimensions: 200 x 131 x 17 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

No one is writing quirkier thrillers than Lemaitre, who gets inside the head of his unhinged protagonist with wicked delight while capturing the madness of the modern world ... A feverish, wickedly entertaining work - Kirkus Review

Pierre Lemaitre continues his upward movement with Three Days and a Life ... typically astringent and accomplished fare - Barry Forshaw, Guardian

Thought-provoking and unsettling, Three Days And A Life is another work of genius from a master storyteller at the top of his game - Jon Coates, Express

Lemaitre is surely France's most elegant and imaginative crime writer - Marcel Berlins, The Times

Lemaitre may be the best current French writer of crime fiction - Financial Times

You may also be interested in...

Voyage of the Damned
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
The Last Devil To Die
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
Added to basket
The Thursday Murder Club
Added to basket
The List of Suspicious Things
Added to basket
Midnight and Blue
Added to basket
Hardback
£25.00 £19.99
The Crash
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Secret
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Hallmarked Man
Added to basket
Hardback
£30.00 £15.00
Murder on Lake Garda
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe
Added to basket
The Wrong Sister
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £7.99
The Housemaid Is Watching
Added to basket
Strange Pictures
Added to basket
Paperback
£14.99
Homecoming
Added to basket
Paperback
£9.99 £8.49
How To Solve Your Own Murder
Added to basket
Raven88

“A subtle shift in style...”

Being a confirmed admirer of Pierre Lemaitre’s books to date, I rather enjoyed the subtle shift of style and location that Three Days And A Life reveals. Turning his attention away from the big city to the rural... More

Hardback edition
5 similar books recommended
Helpful? Upvote 27
Zuky the BookBum

“So close to a 5 star read!”

I'm having a little bit of a struggle coming up with the words to describe how I feel about this one. Clearly, I enjoyed it, but I can't quite work out what it was about it that I liked so much, and then how... More

Hardback edition
Helpful? Upvote 26

“Fantastic French Noir”

Three Days and a Life

The French writer Pierre Lemaitre has given us an old school style literary crime thriller that is multi-layered, vivid imagery and great characterisation. Three Days and a Life may only be a... More

Hardback edition
Helpful? Upvote 24

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.