The Death of Us
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper*
*Winner of the CWA KAA Gold Dagger Award*
*Shortlisted for the International Ned Kelly Award*
‘Taut, elegant and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali
‘A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival’ Claire Fuller
'Wonderful… lives up to the hype’ Stephen King
‘Impossibly accomplished’ Chris Whitaker
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Isabel and Edward meet as teenagers.
When she tells him she loves him, it feels like the bravest thing she’s ever done.
But years later, a stranger walks into their home and tears their world apart.
This is where their story really begins.
*Readers Love THE DEATH OF US*
‘Exceptional … 5 stars isn't enough’★★★★★
‘This is the best book I have read in as long as I can remember’★★★★★
‘I've cried actual tears … God. Just stunning’★★★★★
‘Shocking, moving and really unforgettable’★★★★★
‘Beautifully written and truly a masterpiece’★★★★★
‘This was incredible. A truly magnificent read’★★★★★
‘This kept me hooked for 2 days straight and I could not stop reading it’★★★★★
About the author
Abigail Dean was born in Manchester, and grew up in the Peak District. She graduated from Cambridge with a Double First in English. Formerly a Waterstones bookseller, she spent five years as a lawyer in London, and took summer 2018 off to work on her debut novel, Girl A, ahead of her thirtieth birthday.
Girl A was published in hardback in January 2021 and became an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, also topping the charts in Ireland and Australia. It reached #1 in the UK Kindle charts. The paperback spent eight weeks in the Sunday Times top ten. The novel has been acquired in 36 territories, and television/film rights have sold to Sony. Johan Renck, director of Chernobyl, is attached to work on the television adaptation of Girl A.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A DIVORCED COUPLE reunites for the sentencing of the serial killer who shattered their lives in this moving literary thriller from bestseller Dean (Day One). Thirty years ago, the South London Invader broke into the home of playwright Isabel Nolan and her husband, lawyer George Hennessy. The couple made it out shaken but alive; their relationship, however, never recovered. Decades later, the Invader—retired policeman Nigel Wood—has been caught, tried, and convicted, and Isabel and George, now in their 50s, are preparing to deliver victim statements before his sentencing. The story mostly unspools through Isabel's testimony, in which she recounts her and George's tumultuous marriage and addresses her assailant with all the emotion she no longer dares to share with her ex-husband. Her decision to publicly out herself as a victim of the Invader helped bring the killer to justice—and helped her find her voice as a writer—despite protestations from the fiercely private George. That rich dynamic, plus a poignant subplot about the orphaned daughter of one of the Invader's victims, add texture and novelty to the narrative. As in her two previous works—Girl A, which focused on an adult survivor of parental abuse, and Day One, which depicted the aftermath of a school shooting—Dean transforms tragedy into art with surgical prose and a steely gaze. It's a triumph.
