Sophie
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Matthew and Sophie enjoyed what seemed to be an idyllic childhood existence.Free from parental restrictions, they played together in the old barn and in the woods and fields around, as well as in the disused quarry where they hunted for fossils and where Sophie kept all her secrets.There were just the two of them, for their mother carried on her own, mysterious, life and their baby brother did not live long enough to intrude.
Mattie hero-worshipped his all-knowing elder sister, and believed that their childhood would go on for ever.But Sophie was growing up, and the secret elements in her life would affect Mattie in shocking and unforeseen ways as his childish terrors became an all-too dreadful reality.For Mattie, too, had his secrets...
Mattie hero-worshipped his all-knowing elder sister, and believed that their childhood would go on for ever.But Sophie was growing up, and the secret elements in her life would affect Mattie in shocking and unforeseen ways as his childish terrors became an all-too dreadful reality.For Mattie, too, had his secrets...
Reviews
THE NOVEL STREAMS PAST YOU WITH A TERRIBLE AND PURPOSEFUL INTENSITY, UNROLLING LIKE A BAD DREAM...COMBINES THE CREEPY NARRATIVE POWER OF A YOUNG WILLIAM GOLDING WITH A DISTURBINGLY ACCURATE MEMORY OF WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A CHILD... IN THIS SPOOKY SECOND NOVEL HE HAS PRODUCED SOMETHING SO GOOD THAT ONE CAN ONLY WONDER WHAT HE WILL DO NEXT
Libby Purves, The Times
