Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can't communicate. Or can he? A fantastic psychological thriller that is soon to be a film starring Aaron Paul and Jamie Dornan. This hardback book has 227 pages and measures: 24 x 16 x 2.5cm.
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Review:
'Jensen is becoming one of our best writers, sometimes surreal, sometimes down to earth, always with a great and embracing human sympathy.' Mail on Sunday 'One of the few living writers who can be described as genuinely original.' Matt Thorne 'Ambitious, mischievous, clever and very funny.' Time Out 'Liz Jensen has written a remarkable suspense novel: tart, mysterious and wrenching.' Anthony Minghella
From the Publisher:
A spellbinding tale about what the human heart can inflict and the mind endure , this is selected for BBC Page Turners hosted by Jeremy Vine, April 2005
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0747571066
- ISBN 13 9780747571063
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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