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The Woman Who Ran
- Author
- Sam Baker
- Narrator
- Jenny Funnell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 28 January 2016
- Run Time
- 11 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book’ Marian Keyes
How do you escape what you can’t remember?
What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals’ curiosity her worst nightmare.
Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it can catch up with her. But with everything she knows in fragments, from her marriage to her career as a war photographer, how can she work out who to trust and what to believe? Most days she can barely remember who she is…
She can run. But can she hide?
Praise for The Woman Who Ran:
‘Disquieting, thought-provoking …keeps twisting and turning as it hurtles towards a hair-raising climax’
Guardian
‘Clever and absorbing’
Stylist
'Superbly executed, with a creeping sense of dread that builds to an explosive finish' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
Critics Review
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‘A fast-paced thriller… I tore through this.’ Sunday Times
‘Disquieting, thought-provoking…keeps twisting and turning as it hurtles towards a hair-raising climax’ Guardian
‘Tension, terror and plenty of twists give this thriller unstoppable momentum’ Woman & Home
‘Dark and compelling’ Sun on Sunday
‘Compulsive, dramatic and hypnotic…very frightening, very well told. Highly recommended' lovereading.co.uk
‘The tone is dark, the air of menace is constant…a haunting, tense thriller’ The Debrief
‘Baker evokes the minatory setting with real panache and excels above all at orchestrating the steadily rising tension’ Financial Times
‘I really, really loved it…Utterly gripping’ Kate Mosse
‘Vivid, atmospheric… I loved curling up with it’ Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer
‘Clever and gripping with an ending so tense I was holding my breath’ Claire Douglas, author of The Sisters
‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book’ Marian Keyes
‘Loved @sambaker's The Woman Who Ran. Completely new voice, and honest, compelling depiction of domestic violence and why women stay.’ Jojo Moyes
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Details
- Author
- Sam Baker
- Narrator
- Jenny Funnell
- Duration
- 11 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 January 2016
- ISBN
- 9780007472345
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Thriller / suspense fiction
Synopsis
‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book’ Marian Keyes How do you escape what you can’t remember? What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals’ curiosity her worst nightmare. Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it can catch up with her. But with everything she knows in fragments, from her marriage to her career as a war photographer, how can she work out who to trust and what to believe? Most days she can barely remember who she is… She can run. But can she hide? Praise for The Woman Who Ran: ‘Disquieting, thought-provoking …keeps twisting and turning as it hurtles towards a hair-raising climax’Guardian ‘Clever and absorbing’Stylist 'Superbly executed, with a creeping sense of dread that builds to an explosive finish' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
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