Michael Turner is still fighting the demons of his childhood. He grew up alone; an orphan lost in a maze of institutions and foster homes, surviving on dreams of success, and of finding a place where he was wanted and could belong. Now, in his early twenties, he is at last beginning to escape his past. He has a loving fiancee and is taking the first steps in a promising legal career. And when, unexpectedly, a powerful father figure enters his life, it seems that all Michael's childhood dreams are being realised. But dreams come with a price. Michael has allowed a dangerous cuckoo to enter the nest. One who is plagued by his own demons, who can manipulate the needs and vulnerabilities of others to dreadful effect.
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THE PUPPET SHOW is written with the kind of stylish simplicity that makes it a pleasure to read, and it offers intelligent entertainment that lingers in the mind - Sunday Express
A skin-prickling page-turner - Daily Mail
This is a highly successful thriller: a page-turner, certainly, but also original, well-constructed and intelligent - Spectator
Such is the hard-edged skill of Redmond's writing that the carefully structured revelations about the past have a bitter and compelling power - Times Literary Supplement (on The Wishing Game)
finely crafted if disturbing - East Anglian Daily Times
Redmond marries a sure grasp of pyschology with a beguiling narrative. - The Good Book Guide
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Höhe: 111 mm
Breite: 177 mm
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978-0-340-74820-6 (9780340748206)
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Born in 1966, Patrick Redmond was educated in England and the Channel Islands, and studied law at Leicester University and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. For eight years he worked as a solicitor at various firms in the City. He now writes full-time. THE PUPPET SHOW is his second novel.