We All Begin As Strangers
by Harriet Cummings
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Pub Date 20 Apr 2017 | Archive Date 24 Apr 2017
Orion Publishing Group | Orion
Description
If you loved THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP by Joanna Cannon, ELIZABETH IS MISSING by Emma Healey and THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce, you'll adore this wonderful British debut novel.
1984, England
Someone is slipping into homes through back doors and open windows in the village of Heathcote. What's more, the perpetrator knows everything about everyone - leaving curious objects in their homes, or taking things from them.
When beloved Anna goes missing, the whole community fears she's been kidnapped.
But as the villagers search for Anna, it's their own darkest secrets they're desperate to keep hidden...
Inspired by real events, and with a brilliant cast of characters, WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS is a beautiful debut novel you'll want to recommend to everyone.
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Praise for WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS:
'A dazzling debut... Beautifully plotted, fantastically written and compellingly strange' - DAILY MAIL
'I can see why it has been compared to THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP as it has such a warm but heartbreaking feel to it' - Kate, Amazon reviewer
'A book about community and how trusts can be so easily broken' - WRITING.IE
'Explores ideas of loneliness and longing' - THE i NEWSPAPER
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781409169048 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 320 |
Featured Reviews
Susan B, Reviewer
Small community, hot summer, strange goings on. There seem to be several of these at the moment, including Joanna Cannon's excellent Goats and Sheep. This, sadly, is not in the same class.
The theme of the book is to examine how well we really know each other. A village, one hot summer in the early 1980s, is thrown into confusion and fear over The Fox - someone who slips into their houses at night, moving or taking odd things, and standing over them while they sleep. Who is it? A pervert? Or someone they know?
The novel is divided into four parts, each told from the point of view of someone different in the village, very often an outsider to the area, and the book reveals their secrets to the reader, while the police try to solve the mystery. The early part of the novel is told from the POV of Deloris who is one of the least sympathetic of the characters and it makes for a difficult opening. However the main problem is that The Fox's identity, when revealed, has a story that was more interesting than the others' and I wonder if the story wouldn't be better focussing on more of this than the others.
This isn't a bad novel, but it could be better. It's a light enough read trying to be more.
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