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The Little Friend

By Donna Tartt

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| Hardcover | 9780679439387

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The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.

In a small Mississippi town, Harriet ClContinue

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.

In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a baby—was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard. His killer was never identified, nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy.

For Harriet, who has grown up largely unsupervised, in a world of her own imagination, her brother is a link to a glorious past she has only heard stories about or glimpsed in photograph albums. Fiercely determined, precocious far beyond her twelve years, and steeped in the adventurous literature of Stevenson, Kipling, and Conan Doyle, she resolves, one summer, to solve the murder and exact her revenge. Harriet’s sole ally in this quest, her friend Hely, is devoted to her, but what they soon encounter has nothing to do with child’s play: it is dark, adult, and all too menacing.

A revelation of familial longing and sorrow, The Little Friend explores crime and punishment, as well as the hidden complications and consequences that hinder the pursuit of truth and justice. A novel of breathtaking ambition and power, it is rich in moral paradox, insights into human frailty, and storytelling brilliance.

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  • 'The Little Friend' by Donna Tartt

    In short, this is the story of a young girl with an overactive imagination who tries to solve the murder of her brother who died 12 years earlier. It's set in the deep south of the USA and is alive with gothic/biblical imagery and an amazing assortme ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

  • Soaringly, incredulously, gorgeously cruel...

    The Little Friend by Donna Tartt 555pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 The appearance of Donna Tartt's second novel has been an event rather than just a publication. That happens from time to time, but the media rarely act in concert over a literary novel on qui ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • I really like Donna Tartt but I couldn't get into this book. It took me a long time to read - which is unusual for me - but I persevered. There were some sections of the story that I loved and I felt truly sucked in, but I lost interest in parts and had to struggle not to speed read. When I got to t ... (continue)

    I really like Donna Tartt but I couldn't get into this book. It took me a long time to read - which is unusual for me - but I persevered. There were some sections of the story that I loved and I felt truly sucked in, but I lost interest in parts and had to struggle not to speed read. When I got to the end I didn't feel my usual satisfaction that I had discovered a new world in the pages of the book.

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