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Girl A (Paperback)

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Published: 30/09/2021
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Waterstones Says

Following the news that their abusive mother has died in prison, Lex and her siblings must face the horrors of their past once more in this arresting debut that is both a page-turning thriller and a searing portrait of survival.

Our Thriller of the Month for October 2021

Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022

Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2022 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year

’Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’

Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped. When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer.

Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of Horrors into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her six siblings – and with the childhood they shared. Beautifully written and incredibly powerful, Girl A is a story of redemption, of horror, and of love.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008389093
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 300 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

‘Sensational’ RICHARD OSMAN ‘Psychologically astute, written with flair. In the new year battle between first thrillers it’s the clear winner’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Superb. Authentic, humane and full of hope’ GUARDIAN ‘The novel you’ll stay up reading until 3am’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘Powerful, evocative and accomplished’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Astonishingly good’ OBSERVER ‘VC Andrews for Generation Z’ THE TIMES ‘An unmissable debut. Absorbing and powerful’ DAILY EXPRESS ‘This haunting, bruising drama has a gut-punch of a twist’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING  ‘A powerful read, an astonishing debut’ PRIMA  ‘A gripping and eerie read’ BBC ONLINE  ‘A riveting page-turner, full of hope in the face of despair’ SOPHIE HANNAH for THE GUARDIAN  ‘Deft yet devastating. An astonishing achievement' JESSIE BURTON ‘Utter genius’ JOANNA CANNON ‘A masterpiece’ LOUISE O’NEILL ‘Terrifyingly gripping’ SUSIE STEINER ‘Fantastic, I loved it’ PAULA HAWKINS ‘Dark, compelling’ JANE FALLON ‘Incredibly well written, devastating in a good way’ LIZ NUGENT ‘A scorcher of a debut’ EMMA GANNON ‘Girl A gives you no option but to put your life on pause’ STACEY HALLS ‘Pitch black, but with such a thread of tenderness’ BETH MORREY ‘A modern-day classic’ JEFFERY DEAVER ‘Beautiful’ ADELE PARKS ‘Insanely gripping’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Remarkable’ CHRIS WHITAKER ‘Tremendously accomplished’ JANE CASEY ‘Powerful, immersive’ HARRIET TYCE ‘Intense, haunting, powerful’ T.M. LOGAN ‘A gripping novel’ OPRAH MAGAZINE ‘The biggest mystery thriller since Gone Girl’ ELLE ‘Grips from the first page’ THE BOOKSELLER ‘One of 2021’s biggest debuts’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘A dark thriller with a heartbreaking twist’ RED ‘You won’t be able to put it down’ HELLO ‘Brilliant’ THE SUN

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“Totally addictive…”

Girl A tells the story of a girl who runs away from an abusive home to alert the authorities to the goings on and safeguard the welfare of her siblings.

Abigail Dean has created a character with inner strength but... More

Hardback edition
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“Wow!”

I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of this from HarperCollins (thank you!) and WOW!! I started reading this novel and literally did not put it down all day. This is an incredible, devastating book, and I... More

Hardback edition
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Lance

“Beautifully written”

I was lucky to get an early copy from the publishers (thank you!) and, wow, what a book!
I expected it to be a fairly straightforward thriller considering the subject and had the rug pulled on me because this is... More

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