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The boy at the keyhole

Giles, Stephen2019
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Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once great estate in Surrey with the family’s housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for five months, purportedly tending to her late husband’s faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study. Samuel’s life is otherwise regulated by Ruth, who runs the house with an iron fist. Only she and Samuel know how brutally she enforces order. As rumors in town begin to swirl, Samuel wonders whether something more sinister is afoot. Perhaps his mother did not leave, but was murdered by Ruth. Channeling the masterful suspense of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca and the haunting, claustrophobic atmosphere of the works of Shirley Jackson, The Boy at the Keyhole is an electrifying debut about the precarious dance between truth and perception, and the shocking acts that occur amid tightly knit quarters.
Main title:
The boy at the keyhole / by Stephen Giles ; read by Kevin Spink.
Author:
Edition:
Complete and unabridged.
Imprint:
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2019.℗2018.
Collation:
5 audio discs (CD) (5 hr., 44 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm.
Performers:
Read by Kevin Spink.
ISBN:
9780655604624
Language:
English
BRN:
373779
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