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Taylor, Andrew
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The American Boy
β Scribed by Taylor, Andrew
- Book ID
- 108569235
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 269 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007109601
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β¦ Synopsis
The No.1 bestseller and award-winning Richard & Judy Book Club pick. An atmospheric and deeply absorbing literary historical crime classic - available for the first time as an ebook.England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the childβs sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frantβs beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes entwined in their familyβs affairs.When a brutal murder takes place in Londonβs seedy backstreets, it is not certain who either the victim or the killer is. But all clues seem to lead back to the Frant household, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart.And what of the strange American boy at the heart of these macabre events β what is the dark secret of young Edgar Allan Poe?
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