Girl A: The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller, an astonishing new crime thriller debut novel from the biggest literary fiction voice of 2021

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Unfortunately, while alternating timelines she chose to flashback and forward and change points of view while doing so. Other than her weird on-and-off relationship with some rando, there really wasn't much explanation for how she got where she is. I found myself waiting with each chapter and turn for Lex’s pain to be made palatable, digestible for a general audience unused to the burden of trauma, but Dean’s writing holds no quarter for such things. Louise and David Turpin, californiani: nel 2019 sono stati processati e condannati al carcere a vita per aver abusato di 12 su 13 dei loro figli. Lex Gracie is the girl who finally managed to escape her family’s house of horrors, raise the alarm and end the torture for her siblings.

Recommended for: Fans of true crime, survivor stories, and psychological profiles (*not* psychological suspense or thrillers though).

Lex and her siblings are infamous for unpleasant reasons: they were held captive in their home, abused and starved by their parents. This had me gripped from the start, you can’t help but be drawn in with this beautifully written story about survival against all odds. La mia prima curiosità è come mai un’avvocata di trent’anni decida di esordire con una storia simile.

I want to know what went on in the house and in the minds of those in the house, including the mother. She took a law conversion course after finishing her degree and ended up focusing on technology law. She is compelling in some ways, understandably damaged by what she experienced as a child and very single-minded. Lex is the titular Girl A, the woman who as a child escaped the house where she and her siblings were held. There were a few examples but the glaring one I can think of is the fact that a lawyer wouldn’t know what an executor is.This was exceptionally frustrating, and I hope the team resolve these issues before it is published. One thing that was noticeable is how strikingly different the siblings are from each other despite their shared trauma – indeed you can even sense a hint of resentment when Alexandra refers to the likes of Ethan and Delilah. This happens all too often IRL, and kids are left to deal with the consequences of their parent's bad days. Dean was on a work trip for Google in India, in a taxi in a rural area with no reception, when her agent started trying to get in touch to tell her the news.

subjectively speaking I enjoyed it without ever tipping over into the kind of bookish obsession that grips me. As Lex goes to see each sibling--Ethan, Delilah, Gabriel, Noah, and Evie--readers slowly come to realize that all of them are still suffering from what they lived through, but each of their relationships with Lex and among each other are either close in various unhealthy ways, and/or that as they were growing up, some of them suffered at the hands of each other and not just their parents. Born in Manchester, Abigail Dean grew up in the Peak District and completed a degree in English Literature at Cambridge University. Instead, the mysteries are in the flashbacks, about what happened in the house before Lex’s escape, as it becomes clearer that the reader has not been told some of the things that happened all those years ago.

However, before that happens, the siblings will have to get through the scars they carry and learn to cope with their past, their differences, the secrets they keep from each other, and their shifting alliances. its one of those novels that has genuinely talented writing and plotting so is worth a read for that reason - the rest is entirely in the eyes of the beholder. l’incipit di queste trecentosessanta pagine di tourbillon che Abigail Dean padroneggia con sapiente abilità, accelerando e rallentando, approfondendo e sospendendo, alternando i piani temporali proprio dove conduce l’emozione di quel momento, di quella pagina.

C’è almeno un momento in cui ho fatto fatica a trattenere le lacrime (non ci sono riuscito), e c’è almeno un colpo di scena notevole. This is a disturbing novel about a girl who survived terrible abuse in a ‘house of horrors’ and as an adult is still suffering from the trauma of it. A BFI, BBC Film, Creative Scotland presentation in association with Great Point Media of a Barry Crerar production. These questions are answered as Lex confronts her siblings with a plan to convert their inherited family home into a community center.I do wish that publishers would stop marketing books as thrillers when they aren’t… Great review, agreed with you on everything.