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The
2004 Award
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Land of the Living by Nicci French |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Abbie
Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded, bound at her hands and feet.
She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees
feeds her and talks to her. He promises to keep her alive for now, but says
he will kill her - like the others. But Abbie has spirit, strength and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds she is alone, tells herself stories, remembers her life, talks to her captor and plots her survival. Above all, she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life - the land of the living. Among her memories are a horribly stressful career and a disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend, Terry. Could there be a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear…? |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Nicci French's novels are The Memory Game, The Safe House, Killing Me Softly, Beneath the Skin and The Red Room. She lives in Suffolk, England |
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