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Jellybird

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What to expect

'I'm good at secrets,' Libby says. Yes, thinks Jessica, I bet you are . . .

Jessica should have everything to make her happy: a loving husband, a growing reputation as a jewellery designer, hope for a family of her own in the future. Then she meets Libby - flattering, attentive - and believes she has found the friendship she missed out on as a child. Until Jessica catches her husband and Libby alone, heads together in whispered collusion.

With her life unravelling, Jessica flees home to the seaside town where she grew up. The discovery of an old postcard among her childhood belongings sends Jessica in search of her first love, Thomas, 'the ghost boy' who disappeared one night seventeen years ago. The last time Jessica saw Thomas he was covered in blood and begging her to hide him. Now to find him, Jessica must confront the secrets that link her to Libby, the missing boy and a brutal murder.

Read by Joan Walker

(p) 2014 Oakhill Publishing

Critics Review

A book to devour in one sitting, JELLYBIRD is a dark and unsettling thriller from exciting new voice Lezanne Clannachan
Good Housekeeping
A tremendous debut with real psychological texture. The plotting is subtle, the balance between past and present finely judged, the prose fresh and precise
Nigel Farndale, bestselling author of The Blasphemer
This is a nail-biting debut full of twists and betrayal - an author to look for again.
Candis
Clannachan's clipped style sustains the story's tempo in her promising, unsettling debut
Big Issue in the North
Author Lezanne Clannachan
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 10 hours and 2 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781409151074
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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