Description
| Product ID: | 9781447293927 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Other Mrs Walker |
| Authors: | Author: Mary Paulson-Ellis |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A detective story with no detective . . . <p><b>Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year.</b><br><i><br><b>The Other Mrs Walker</b></i><b> is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters.<br></b><br><i>Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name . . . </i><br><br>An old lady dies alone and unheeded in a cold Edinburgh flat on a snowy Christmas night. A faded emerald dress hangs in her wardrobe; a spilt glass of whisky pools on the floor.<br><br>A few days later a middle-aged woman arrives back in the city she thought she’d left behind, her future uncertain, her past in tatters.<br><br>She soon finds herself a job at the Office for Lost People, tracking down the families of those who have died neglected and alone.<br><br>But what Margaret Penny cannot yet know, is just how entangled her own life will become in the death of one lonely stranger . . .<br><br>'One of the strongest debuts of the year' <i>Herald</i><br><br>'Full of twists and turns' <i>Independent</i><br><br>'A wonderful, inventive debut . . . I can't wait to see what this author has up her sleeve next' Fanny Blake, <i>Daily Mail</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-11-02 |
