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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755392230

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One family, one town, devastated by one tragic event.

Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of?

When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn’t well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day’s tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched.

Stephen’s own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood. But will he ever be able to understand the crime that punctured their lives so brutally? How can a community move on from such a terrible legacy?

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Reviews

Tom Vowler is an author to watch out for; a writer, if there is any justice in the world, who is going places
FRESH BLOOD Author of the Month, www.crimesquad.com
Praise for Tom Vowler's debut What Lies Within: A devastating story, staying with the reader long after the last page
www.shotsmag.co.uk
As unsettling as it is minutely imagined, this striking debut novel from Tom Vowler will give serious pause for thought to anyone considering downsizing for a cosy life in the countryside
Patrick Gale
Taut and compelling, you won't just read this book, you'll devour it
Alex Preston
Tom Vowler's debut novel is a finely achieved work. Sensitively written and beautifully crafted, it explores sexual violence and the resilience of human tenderness, set against the austere beauty and underlying threat of Dartmoor...hard to put down, impossible to forget
Graham Mort
A powerful and unsettling book
Jen Campbell
Dealing with difficult themes...the story is utterly absorbing
Kate Wilson, www.literatureworks.org.uk
I was captivated
www.dovegreyreader.com
It's a dark and unsettling read... will leave you mulling over the implications long after you've finished reading
www.bookmunch.com
Psychological suspense with magnificent psychological depth... simply stunning
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