Description
It is summer 1989 and fifteen-year-old Clotilde is on holiday with her parents in Corsica. On a twisty mountain road, their car comes off at a curve and plunges into a ravine. Only Clotilde survives.
Twenty-seven years later, she returns to Corsica with her husband and their sulky teenage daughter. Clotilde wants the trip to do two things - to help exorcise her past, and to build a bridge between her and her daughter. But in the very place where she spent that summer all those years ago, she receives a letter. From her mother. As if she were still alive.
As fragments of memory come back, Clotilde begins to question the past. And yet it all seems impossible - she saw the corpses of her mother, her father, her brother. She has lived with their ghosts. But then who sent this letter - and why?
About the Author
Michel Bussi is the author of many bestselling novels, including AFTER THE CRASH, BLACK WATER LILIES, DON'T LET GO and TIME IS A KILLER. He is one of the most succesful French authors of all time, with millions of copies sold internationally and over a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone.
Reviews
27 years after a horrendous crash that killed her parents and brother, Clotilde returns to Corsica with her own family - where she receives a letter from mother mother, as it she were still alive today. * GRAZIA *
combines an extraordinarily inventive plot with characters haunted by long-ago events - and demonstrates why he has such a hold on readers. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Book Information
ISBN 9781474606684
Author Michel Bussi
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Weight(grams) 594g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 34mm