Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it's too late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he'll do it. So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored serial killer. A game that will have more terrifying consequences than Steven could ever imagine...
Blacklands is a very special debut thriller, and a clear-eyed depiction of ordinary people under extraordinary stressThis is something quite new Original, unsettling and atmospheric, this is a debut that hits the ground running
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa. She has worked as a journalist and screenwriter and her script The Locker Room earned her the Carl Foreman/Bafta Award for Young British Screenwriters. Belinda lives in Wales and is currently working on her second novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780593062944 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593062949 |
| Title | Blacklands |
| Author | Belinda Bauer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 2010 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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