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- ISBN: 9781101517710 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1101517719 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, 2010. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Teenage girls -- England -- Fiction Assertiveness (Psychology) -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Conduct of life -- Fiction Bullying -- Fiction Crime -- Fiction England -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Enjoying a quiet and isolated life with her mother after being excused from a high school where she was nearly killed by bullies, 16-year-old Shelley snaps during a violent encounter with an intruder that causes both mother and daughter to reevaluate their beliefs about safety, morality and limits. A first novel. 30,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Longing to hide from the world after the trauma of her parents' divorce and the terrible bullying inflicted on her in school, teenaged Shelley moves with her timid mother to a remote cottage in the English countryside where all goes well, until an intruder invades their reclusive life and nothing is ever the same again. - Penguin Putnam
An electrifying psychological thriller about a mother and daughter pushed to their limits.
Shelley and her mom have been menaced long enough. Excused from high school where a trio of bullies nearly killed her, and still reeling from her parents' humiliating divorce, Shelley has retreated with her mother to the quiet of Honeysuckle Cottage in the countryside. Thinking their troubles are over, they revel in their cozy, secure life of gardening and books, hot chocolate and Brahms by the fire. But on the eve of Shelley's sixteenth birthday, an unwelcome guest disturbs their peace and something inside Shelley snaps. What happens next will shatter all their certainties-about their safety, their moral convictions, the limits of what they are willing to accept, and what they're capable of.
Debut novelist Gordon Reece has written a taut tale of gripping suspense, packed with action both comic and terrifying. Shelley is a spellbinding narrator, and her delectable mix of wit, irony, and innocence transforms the major current issue of bullying into an edge- of-your-seat story of fear, violence, family loyalty, and the outer reaches of right and wrong.
