β Scribed by John Ajvide Lindqvist
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When embittered ex-pop-star Lennart CederstrΓΆm finds a baby left for dead in a plastic bag, he is uncertain what to do--until he hears her cry. It is a clear, haunting, perfectly pitched note, and Lennart decides she will be his project. A child raised in isolation: the vehicle for a pure, uncorrupted music.
But like anyone brought up in a basement, young Theres turns out to have a few idiosyncrasies.
Dangerous ones.
The best-selling author of Let the Right One In delivers a massively entertaining satire on the Idol phenomenon, laced with just the right amount of violence. And introduces the oddest couple of outsider anti-heroines in contemporary literature.
'A dangerously imaginative man.' Herald Sun
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