The Sunshine Man
a twisty novel of long-buried secrets from the bestselling author of The Lamplighters
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Gripping and emotional, The Sunshine Man is a powerful story of a terrible crime and the revenge plotted over decades, set against the haunting beauty of rural Devon.
From the bestselling author of The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex.
'Luminously unsettling' - The Observer
'A deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner' - Lucy Clarke
'A wholly original and immersive thriller' - Harriet Evans
One cold winter's morning, Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear: Jimmy Maguire - the man who murdered her sister - is out of prison.
She sends her children to school, finds the gun she's kept hidden all this time, and leaves for London, determined to find Jimmy and make him pay. But there’s another side to this story and nothing is at it seems. Birdie is about to enter a world of family secrets, worn-out loyalties and long-buried betrayals.
Readers LOVE The Sunshine Man:
'A compelling tight thriller with heart' *****
'Hits you right between the eyes' *****
'Brilliantly written with twists and turns' *****
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A Wiltshire woman stalks her sister's killer in this mournful crime thriller from British novelist Stonex (The Lamplighters). One morning in 1989, Bridget Keller learns that James Maguire is being released from prison after serving 18 years for murdering her younger sister, Providence. Bridget sees her husband off on a business trip, arranges for her mother-in-law to collect her kids after school, and retrieves the gun she secretly purchased in anticipation of this day. She then departs for London, prepared to tail James until the moment is right for her to exact justice. Meanwhile, an oblivious James carries out his own agenda, assisted by a daughter he barely knows. Stonex's sophomore effort is at once a rage-fueled revenge tale and a heartbreaking exploration of memory's fallibility, compassion's power, and violence's cyclical nature. Childhood flashbacks are peppered throughout Bridget's anguished first-person narration, while letters and journal entries James wrote in prison add context to third-person chapters that chronicle his postincarceration struggles. Slack pacing occasionally saps the narrative of momentum, but fans of sinuous slow burns will be entertained.
