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The truth about the Harry Quebert affair / Joël Dicker ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : MacLehose Press, 2015.Description: 615 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781848663268 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert. English
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ2704.I24
Summary: August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day a small New Hampshire town lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. 33 years later, her body is dug up from his yard along with a manuscript copy of his career-defining novel. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to save his mentor from the electric chair. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon blur together. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F DIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R14074P0499

This translation originally published: 2014.

August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day a small New Hampshire town lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. 33 years later, her body is dug up from his yard along with a manuscript copy of his career-defining novel. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to save his mentor from the electric chair. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon blur together. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

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