Description
Product ID: | 9781529024289 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Witness |
Authors: | Author: Mandasue Heller |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense, Lancashire, c 2010 to c 2020 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Witness is a dark and gritty thriller set in Manchester from bestselling author Mandasue Heller. <p><b>Dark and gritty, <i>Witness</i> is a heart-pounding thriller set in Manchester by bestselling author Mandasue Heller.</b><br><br>Teenager Holly Evans and her over-protective mother, Josie, are living a hand-to-mouth existence, moving constantly from one squalid dump to the next. When they move into an illegally sub-let council flat in Manchester, Holly feels settled for the first time in her life – even if she is forbidden to go out, or even open the front door when her mum’s at work. What exactly are they hiding from?<br><br>Then Holly has a falling out with her best friend, and suddenly finds herself becoming increasingly isolated and alone in the world. But she is about to make a new friend in Suzie – the glamorous woman who lives directly across the road, who Holly witnesses being beaten up by her violent boyfriend.<br><br>But whoever Holly and Josie have been running from is about to find them, and nothing will ever be the same again.<br><br>You can only run for so long. And some will kill for your silence . . .<br><br><b>'Heller doesn’t mince words, her gritty plots create a Manchester underworld to rival Martina Cole’s raw and rough East End' – <i>Peterborough Evening Telegraph</i></b></p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-02-18 |