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Just A Boy: A gripping, heartbreaking novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Can You Hear Me?
Elena Varvello
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'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent
A gripping novel about family, loss and secrets, from the author of TheTimes bestselling sensation Can You Hear Me?
The boy is almost eighteen and has a loving family. He's polite and well-educated, quiet but always smiling.
When word spreads that he has broken into and stolen from a neighbour's house, his parents and sisters can't believe it. Then the unthinkable happens: an attack that will rip through the town and his family for years to come.
Just a Boy is a gripping, incisive novel about secrets, adolescence and how we can love someone - a child, a partner - without ever knowing their mind.
Praise for The Times bestseller Can You Hear Me?
'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian
'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop
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Praise for Just A Boy: A gripping, heartbreaking novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Can You Hear Me?
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Varvello knows how to construct a drama full of suspense, working towards revelation . . . a fascinating read - Irish ExaminerA moving portrait of a grieving family painted by the utterly compelling talent of author Elena Varvello. JUST A BOY is a beauty of a novel in which the pain and alienation of a teenage boy goes unnoticed until it is too late to halt its gripping conclusion - Kate MayfieldHaunting and surreal, Elena Varvello's JUST A BOY is beautifully written, a gripping and masterful account of a troubled family's struggle in the aftermath of tragedy. Shifting effortlessly between past and present, Varvello creates an almost dreamlike atmosphere as she interweaves each character's story, drawing their connections ever tighter until it's impossible to look away. I loved this book!Praise for Can Your Hear Me?Can You Hear Me? poignantly touches on problems of friendships, families and coming of age in a small community in northern Italy. There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel. - Marcel Berlins, The Times'I love books I can read all in one sitting (maybe with a break to make tea) and can you hear me? by Elena Varvello was one of these. A thriller, a mystery, a coming-of-age story that utterly gripped me from beginning to end - and the translation from the original Italian never for a second gets in the way' - Victoria Hislop, Good HousekeepingHaunting... Set in a small Italian town in the late 1970s, Can You Hear Me? reads like a collaboration between Daphne du Maurier and Megan Abbott, a superb psychological study marinated in a teenage boy's simmering hormones. A poet and award-winning short-story writer in her native Italy, Varvello writes tautly lyrical prose (beautifully translated by Alex Valente), delivering an absorbing tale that draws the reader into a nightmarish fever dream of isolation and paranoia given a chilling sense of inevitability by Varvello's matter-of-fact tone and Elia's deadpan narration. - Declan Burke, Irish Times
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