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Little Face

a totally gripping and addictive crime thriller packed with twists

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Little Face

By: Sophie Hannah
Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
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 One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945

Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time. On her eager return, she finds the front door open, her husband asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes into their baby's room and screams. 'This isn't our baby! Where's our baby?' Her increasingly hostile husband swears she must be either mad or lying, and the DNA test is going to take a week.



One week later, before the test has been taken, Alice and the baby have disappeared. Run away, abducted, murdered? The police who dismissed her baby swap story must find out, and as they do they find dark incidents in David's past - like the murder of his ex-wife...

(P)2007 ISIS Publishing Ltd©2006 Sophie Hannah Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting

Critic reviews

Quite brilliant - I was extremely impressed
This may well turn out to be the detective novel of the year . . . A terrifying mystery of manipulation, counter-manipulation and, finally, astounding revelation - it's a haunting story told with bewitching skill.
Chilling and completely gripping - I stayed up half the night to finish it.
The author is a poet by trade and she brings a wealth of psychological and literary subtlety to bear in this impressive novel. Smart and disarmingly unnerving
Hannah adapts to crime fiction with arresting aplomb: her characters are vivid, the novel's challenging double narrative is handled with flair, and its denouement is ingenious
Women in peril flit through the pages of traditional Gothic fiction, murmuring 'Had I but known!' as they fall for the wrong man, open the wrong door or apply for the wrong job. Sophie Hannah takes the trusty formula in both hands, gives it a vigorous shake and uses it to produce something fascinating and original in her novel. Beautifully written the novel is outstandingly chilling - terror lurks in the half understood and in anticipation. Little Face is a hugely promising debut. Sophie Hannah is an author to watch (Andrew Taylor)
Hannah's whodunit milks a classic formula with subversive results. This missing-baby tale chimes with very modern anxieties. Custody issues lie at the heart of the resolution, and the increasingly perverse relationship between Alice and David is grounded in recognisable reality that serves only to make our flesh crawl more (Emma Hagestadt)
A suspensful and psychological thriller, the plot twists and turns right up until the very last
Intriguing. Hannah's depiction of relationships tested to the limit by domestic tragedy is impressive (Simon Shaw)
A gripping psychological thriller
Sophie Hannah is an award-winning poet and short story writer, and for this, her first novel, she has come up with a chilling thriller . . . I was left thinking about the book for days
All stars
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was put off initially by a ghastly Americanisation (it's an accelerator, not gas pedal) but it was a good listen, if not a tad predictable.

enjoyed

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The plot is intriguing but the characters are flat. I got bored with hearing her say that the baby was not hers. And that really was the only developed story. There were no subplots of any interest. I wanted to know what had happened to the baby but found it hard to care for the characters. I was glad when it was over.

Intriguing

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My first encounter with a Sophie Hannah book - good listen but a little strange and lacking plot.

OK

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Would you try another book written by Sophie Hannah or narrated by Charlotte Strevens?

Would def try another by this author but am finding the narration very irritating. The emphasis is very often on the wrong word and the tone of narration is too "school-marm" for me.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Not finished it yet - so far I don't have one

How could the performance have been better?

better voices - narrator is trying too hard to bring emotion to the reading and its very off putting

If this book were a film would you go see it?

doubt it but then I don't go to the pictures very often

Not sure I like it but need to know what happens

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Huge potential, but a gripping & somewhat disturbing story culminates with the ending falling flat.

Disappointing in the end.

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