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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nicci FrenchPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.287kg ISBN: 9780141020914ISBN 10: 0141020911 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 05 March 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews<p>Praise for Nicci French and Losing You <br> Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter. <br>-- People <br> Seamless first-person account. . . . This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers. <br>-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> The novel's greatest strength is its cool-eyed portrait of an English village. <br>-- The Washington Post <br> What gives Losing You its chief distinction . . . is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist, who, like any mother, understands that no one can possibly care as much about her child as she does. Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter. <br>-- Salon <br> Nicci French . . . know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension . . . Y "Praise for Nicci French and ""Losing You """"Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter."" --""People """"Seamless first-person account. . . . This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers."" --""Publishers Weekly"" (starred review) ""The novel's greatest strength is its cool-eyed portrait of an English village."" --""The Washington Post"" ""What gives Losing You its chief distinction . . . is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist, who, like any mother, understands that no one can possibly care as much about her child as she does. Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter."" --""Salon"" ""Nicci French . . . know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension . . . Y Praise for Nicci French and ""Losing You ""“Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother’s desperate search for her missing teenage daughter.” —""People ""“Seamless first-person account. . . . This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers.” —""Publishers Weekly"" (starred review) “The novel’s greatest strength is its cool-eyed portrait of an English village.” —""The Washington Post"" “What gives Losing You its chief distinction . . . is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist, who, like any mother, understands that no one can possibly care as much about her child as she does. Nina is the parent we’d all like to be under duress, and I find I’ve become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter.” —""Salon Praise for Nicci French and ""Losing You """"Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter."" --""People """"Seamless first-person account. . . . This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers."" --""Publishers Weekly"" (starred review) ""The novel's greatest strength is its cool-eyed portrait of an English village."" --""The Washington Post"" ""What gives Losing You its chief distinction . . . is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist, who, like any mother, understands that no one can possibly care as much about her child as she does. Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter."" --""Salon"" ""Nicci French . . . know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension . . . You live through every nail-biting minute."" --""The Guardian ""(London) ""This latest offering is sure to keep readers furiously flipping pages through the night."" --""Booklist""" In French's latest thriller/chiller, six London housemates are in search of a murderer, except one of them isn't searching all that hard.It's a young person's job - bike messenger - and Astrid Bell, being young, athletic and something of a free spirit, likes it a lot. Actually, Astrid likes just about everything in her life, especially the people with whom she shares the big old house on Maitland Road. She finds them admirable, able to rise to whatever's required on behalf of compatibility. But they're not flawless. Mick, for instance, is a mite stand-offish, Pippa's sloppy and Miles - house-owner and ex-lover - can be a bit awkward on occasion. Still, on the whole, Astrid's truly pleased with them, considers them chums, real mates, not merely housemates. And then slowly, almost imperceptibly, change happens. Did it begin with Astrid's cycling accident? Perhaps, though no one thought so at the time. Unwisely, a neighbor left her car door open long enough for Astrid to plow a bike into it. The tumble that resulted was more spectacular than serious - a few colorful bruises, no broken bones. What made the incident memorable was its awful aftermath. A few days later, Margaret Farrell, the neighbor, was beaten to death. After that, murder follows murder follows murder, and suddenly Astrid - bewildered and beset - finds she can't explain herself to a growing number of skeptical cops. All she knows is that on Maitland Road an atmosphere that was once beneficent, even sweet-natured, has turned harrowingly hostile.French (Losing You, 2008, etc.) serves up another of her wonderfully sympathetic damsels in distress - no one does that better - but then undermines her with some questionable plotting. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationNicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in Suffolk. There are twenty bestselling novels by Nicci French, published in thirty-one languages. Blue Monday was the first thrilling story in the Frieda Klein series, which concludes with Day of the Dead. facebook.com/NicciFrenchOfficialPage Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |