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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781760895747
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Description:
Alternating between 1961 and 1973, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener.
HARROWFORD HALL
A safe haven for lost girls? Or a breeding ground for revenge?
It's 1973 and Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith is finally assigned her first homicide case. A woman's body has been discovered at Harrowford Hall, a home for unmarried mothers deep in the Victorian countryside.
Led by the formidable Mrs Montague, Harrowford has for decades sold itself as a refuge for 'girls in crisis' - like fourteen-year-old Jane McEvoy, who has no idea of how she got pregnant. And Marilyn Pollard, a scared, angry teenager desperate to escape.
But when Detective Smith arrives at the once-grand gothic mansion, she finds it all but deserted. What's more, the home's overgrown graveyard suggests the apparent poisoning of Nurse Chapman is not Harrowford's first suspicious death . . .
'The Hollow Girl is a haunting mystery, observed with moral clarity and a scalpel-sharp pen. Once again, Yeowart imbues a gripping crime narrative with literary sensibility, and the result is one of the best crime novels I've read in years.' JP POMARE, author of The Wrong Woman
'An expansive and vivid story that wells up from a dark place in history. A tale of lies and betrayal that will make you angry and keep you up at night. Lyn Yeowart is a writer to be reckoned with and this story grabbed me from the opening scene. You need to read it - now!' HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, internationall
ISBN: 9781760895747
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Description:
Alternating between 1961 and 1973, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener.
HARROWFORD HALL
A safe haven for lost girls? Or a breeding ground for revenge?
It's 1973 and Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith is finally assigned her first homicide case. A woman's body has been discovered at Harrowford Hall, a home for unmarried mothers deep in the Victorian countryside.
Led by the formidable Mrs Montague, Harrowford has for decades sold itself as a refuge for 'girls in crisis' - like fourteen-year-old Jane McEvoy, who has no idea of how she got pregnant. And Marilyn Pollard, a scared, angry teenager desperate to escape.
But when Detective Smith arrives at the once-grand gothic mansion, she finds it all but deserted. What's more, the home's overgrown graveyard suggests the apparent poisoning of Nurse Chapman is not Harrowford's first suspicious death . . .
'The Hollow Girl is a haunting mystery, observed with moral clarity and a scalpel-sharp pen. Once again, Yeowart imbues a gripping crime narrative with literary sensibility, and the result is one of the best crime novels I've read in years.' JP POMARE, author of The Wrong Woman
'An expansive and vivid story that wells up from a dark place in history. A tale of lies and betrayal that will make you angry and keep you up at night. Lyn Yeowart is a writer to be reckoned with and this story grabbed me from the opening scene. You need to read it - now!' HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, internationall