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Girl A

By: Abigail Dean
Narrated by: Holliday Grainger
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‘The year’s best debut’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘The best crime novel of the year’ INDEPENDENT

‘Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written’ RICHARD OSMAN

CHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE TIMES, THE FT, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, STYLIST AND MORE!

‘The biggest mystery thriller since Gone Girl’ ELLE
‘The novel you’ll stay up reading until 3am’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘An astonishing achievement.’ JESSIE BURTON
‘Gripping, beautifully written perfection.’ SOPHIE HANNAH
‘A masterpiece.’ LOUISE O’NEILL
‘Fantastic.’ PAULA HAWKINS

‘Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’

I am Lex Gracie: but they call me Girl A.
I grew up with my family on the moors.
I escaped when I was fifteen years old.

NOW SOMETHING IS PULLING ME BACK…

RIGHTS SOLD IN 36 TERRITORIES

SOON TO BE A TV SHOW DIRECTED BY JOHAN RENCK (Chernobyl)

‘Incendiary, beautifully written debut’ Guardian
‘Psychologically astute, adroitly organised, written with flair’ Sunday Times
‘Terrifyingly gripping’ SUSIE STEINER
‘Beautiful’ ADELE PARKS
‘Incredibly well written, devastating in a good way, and intriguing to the last page’ LIZ NUGENT
‘I was obsessed by it. As close to perfect as thrillers get’ JOHN MARRS
‘A gripping debut’ Oprah magazine
One of Marie Claire, Waterstones and Grazia’s best books for 2021
A Sunday Times No.2 bestseller for w/e 6/2/21
A New York Times bestseller

©2020 Abigail Dean (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense True Crime Crime Emotionally Gripping Exciting Heartfelt Scary Suspense
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I have listened to over 5 hours of this book and apart from the beginning nothing is happening to want me to continue listening.
There's no mystery etc; just boring waffle to fill a gap between the beginning and the end of the story. I really don't understand (actually really amazed) how some people have rated this book so highly. I will continue listening and if the story improves I will change my review.

Uninteresting

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I'm not sure I could have ever read this myself as the content was so sad but Holliday Grainger did such an excellent job of narrating it, that I was easily able to listen to the end. I needed her companionship to get through it.
Do not listen to this if you're looking for an uplifting read. It's more about surviving through challenging human experiences.
I'm not sure I would recommend this but it was an undeniably excellent piece of writing and narration.

Completely Heartbreaking

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The plot jumped all over the place. Without really finding out what happened to the characters. The story ended abruptly without really any closure. Wish I hadn't bothered with this book.

Disappointed

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This is a bleak read of an abusive childhood situation. While the author can have an incredible turn of phrase at times, she also has a scattered narration and some epic ambiguity which made me question whether she was incredibly clever at portraying an unreliable narrator or just annoyingly bad at sorting her narrative.
I disliked the book because if it’s dreadful abusive subject, the bleakness and depressive nature of the subject made me wonder what type of person would write this and also what type of person would enjoy this!
If you like to be a voyeur upon pain and suffering, this book is for you. Otherwise, steer clear.

Bleak and rather odd

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Took a while to get going and was difficult to keep track of all the different characters and the way it moved from past to present a lot. It could of been brilliant but there was no depth to any of the characters really. I wanted to know much more. I was disappointed at the sudden ending

Could have been so interesting.

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