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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781473558700
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Length: 448 Pages
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RRP: £14.99
Discover the bold, masterful new novel from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outcast, which holds the reader in its tense grip from start to shocking finish.
*Best Books of 2019 so far* Guardian, *Sizzling hot summer reads* Telegraph
‘A thrillingly good read’ Elizabeth Day
Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea’s dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic.
When Alex and Bea’s parents make a surprise visit, Dan can’t understand why Bea is so appalled, or why she’s never wanted him to know them; Liv and Griff Adamson are charming, and rich. They are the richest people he has ever met. Maybe Bea’s ashamed of him, or maybe she regrets the secrets she’s been keeping.
Tragedy strikes suddenly, brutally, and in its aftermath the family is stripped back to its rotten core, and now neither Bea nor Alex can escape…
‘Terrifying, dangerous, with an ending that is as uncompromising as the build-up is truthful’ Rachel Joyce
‘A suspenseful, beautifully written thriller’ Guardian
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781473558700
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Length: 448 Pages
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RRP: £14.99
Reviews
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"Sadie Jones is such an enjoyable novelist to spend time with. Her books are so easy to read, while each sentence is rich in meaty observation… Elegantly atmospheric… The Snakes left me breathless"
Daily Mail
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"The Snakes asks serious questions about human nature, avarice and justice, wrapped in the fast-paced rhythms of a thriller. It is written with Jones’s trademark economy and a fierce attention to the nuances of familial cruelty… I finished The Snakes with a juddering heart, strangely close to tears"
Guardian
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"Ever since her debut, The Outcast, Jones has peopled her propulsive plots with nuanced, dimensional creations imbued with human failings and graces. The Snakes is no exception… Jones crafts a pitiless shock ending; a denouement that refuses closure and resonates long after the book is set aside… [the ending is] bound to become a talking point"
Financial Times
