What Beauty There Is
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
A searingly powerful and unputdownable thriller that is The Road meets Winter's Bone.
'Beautifully written . . . a chilling footpath of love and loss and keeps you there until you've read every last word' Ruta Sepetys
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT THOSE YOU LOVE?
Life can be brutal.
Jack knew it. So did I.
When jack and I met, did I sense the coming tornado?
I think I did, and there was no stopping it.
For seventeen years, Ava's father has stolen her freedom; silencing her voice and teaching her to love no one. Trust no one.
On the other side of town, life's taken everything from Jack. And now it's coming for his little brother. Alone in the harsh Idaho Winter, their only chance to escape is finding the drug money that destroyed their family.
When Ava realizes her father is on Jack's trail, their two worlds collide and Ava is faced with a choice: remail silent or fight for the brothers' survival - and her own.
But choices, they come at a price . . .
A gripping thriller about love, courage and survival that asks how we decide what's right and wrong in a world where neither is simple - and what we risk if we fail.
'[A] starkly atmospheric thriller' Publishers Weekly
'Riveting and unforgettable.' Kirkus starred review
'Prepare to be haunted and chilled to the bone' SLJ
'So intense, so heartfelt, so deep, so effective: it shook me to the core.' Goodreads Review
'A suspenseful, throbbing tale of love and survival, choices and consequences . . this powerful story will mesmerize.' Booklist starred review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the mountains of Idaho, quiet Jack Dahl, 17, and his little brother, Matty, live alone. With their mother dead and their situation precarious, Jack makes a tough decision: to avoid losing Matty to Child Services, he sets out to find the stolen drug money that landed his father in prison. The cash is well hidden, though, and he's not the only one looking for it: when a vicious, unnamed drug dealer and Jack's father's merciless former associate, Bardem, catch wind of Jack's hunt, they set their sights on him. Bardem's daughter, Ava, finds herself drawn to the brothers—but to save them, she must break away from her controlling and abusive father. Alternating between the third person and Ava's first-person reflections in a fully realized rural setting, Anderson's starkly atmospheric thriller illuminates ways in which cycles of poverty and incarceration can disenfranchise children. Supporting characters, however, especially the two primary villains, suffer from indiscrete renderings, and a character "disfigured" after an attempted scalping is unfortunately named "Red." Ages 14–up.
