A Crime in the Neighborhood
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
$33.14
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2020
Summary
The winner of the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction- a seductive story of suspicion, fear and moral corruption, set in seventies suburbia.
In the long hot summer of 1972, three events shattered the serenity of ten year old Marsha’s life- her father ran away with her mother’s sister Ada; Boyd Ellison, a young boy, was molested and murdered; and Watergate made the headlines.
Living in a world no longer safe or familiar, Marsha turns increasingly to ‘the book of evidence’ in which sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140273328 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140273328 |
| Author: | Suzanne Berne |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
“A remarkable first novel…that captures the history of child-parent relations for the last quarter of a century.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Like Alice McDermott’s That Night and in the tradition of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Suzanne Berne has crafted a child’s disillusionment that mirrors a greater disaffection.”–Newsday
About The Author
Suzanne Berne
Suzanne Berne’s first novel, A Crime in the Neighbourhood, won the 1999 Orange Prize. She is also the author of A Perfect Arrangement, The Ghost at the Table, Missing Lucile, and The Dogs of Littlefield. Suzanne Berne lives with her husband and two daughters near Boston.
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