Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her
dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A
heartbreaking, nail-biting disaster-noir thriller from the
bestselling author of The Cry and Worst Case Scenario. ‘Urgent,
angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and
humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novel’ Erin Kelly
‘Tantalisingly powerful’ The Times ‘Ash Mountain is the
author at her masterly best … I loved it!’ Louise Candlish
________________ Fran hates her hometown, and she thought she’d
escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is
over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway. She
returns home to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage
daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town of Ash
Mountain, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem, she
falls in love for the first time, and her demanding dad tests her
patience, all in the unbearable heat of an Australian summer. As
past friendships and rivalries are renewed, and new ones forged,
Fran’s tumultuous home life is the least of her worries, when old
crimes rear their heads and a devastating bushfire ravages the town
and all of its inhabitants… Simultaneously a warm, darkly funny
portrait of small-town life – and a woman and a land in crisis
– and a shocking and truly distressing account of a catastrophic
event that changes things forever, Ash Mountain is a heart-breaking
slice of domestic noir, and a disturbing disaster thriller that you
will never forget… ________________ ‘A new novel from Helen
Fitzgerald is always a major event, and Ash Mountain is
magnificent’ Mark Billingham ‘There is plenty of human
depravity in the plot but none of that is as terrifyingly
overmastering as the fire’ Literary Review ‘Domestic life is
rarely served up quite so dark as this – but that only makes you
hungry for more’ The Sun ‘Dark, atmospheric and terrifying’
Ambrose Parry ‘Compelling’ Independent ‘A hugely entertaining
writer, with lovingly constructed landscapes and
so-real-you-can-actually-hear-it dialogue but the thing she does
best of all is create a little warm and cosy microcosm of life,
then throw in a bloody great firecracker of a detail that sends the
whole thing off into a completely different direction’ Crime
Fiction Lover Praise for Helen FitzGerald ***Worst Case Scenario
was Shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of
the Year 2020*** ‘The plotting is intricate and beautifully
handled, and the narrative pace is absolutely breakneck … a
wonderful, energetic, hard-hitting and deeply funny novel’ The
Big Issue ‘The main character is one of the most extraordinary
you’ll meet between the pages of a book’ Ian Rankin ‘A dark,
comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and
laugh out loud funny at the same time’ Mark Edwards ‘The
classic thriller gets a hell of a twist’ Heat ‘FitzGerald
writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip
Roth’ Daily Telegraph ‘Domestic life is rarely served up quite
so dark as this – but that only makes you hungry for more’ The
Sun
General
Imprint: |
Orenda Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2020 |
Authors: |
Helen FitzGerald
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Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
276 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-913193-28-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
1-913193-28-4 |
Barcode: |
9781913193287 |
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