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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Howling at the moon
Desperate to escape the 'crying, barking and biting' of her mentally ill octogenarian mother, Helen Knightly fulfils a lifelong dream: she murders her. Alice Sebold's follow-up to The Lovely Bones depicts a lonely, suburban divorcee as she wrestles w ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
4 Reviews
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LC Tam said on Jan 18, 2010 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback
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Nicole Lirette-Pitre said on Jul 11, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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Nuttfive said on Dec 6, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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The best book of the year so far by one of the best writers of this decade.
Useless to summarize the plot: desperation, sorrow, love and impulses of a fragile but yet stronger Helen Knightly lead the storyline from a ravaging beginning to a heartfelt ending.
Alice Sebold has created anothe ... (continue)billy_ellis said on Jul 23, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 304 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0330451359
- ISBN-13: 9780330451352
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Oct 03, 2008
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold 291pp, Picador, £16.99 The Almost Moon begins with a shameless grabber of a sentence - "When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily" - and then doesn't let go of you until the book ends. So the apt questio ... (read full critics)