Can you hear me?: A gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer

Literature & Fiction

Varvello, Elena

Genre Fiction

Quercus

Just A Boy

&nbsp; , 'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent A gripping novel about family, loss and secrets, from the author of the Times bestselling sensation Can You Hear Me? The boy is almost eighteen and has a loving family. He's polite and well-educated, quiet but always smiling. When word spreads that he has broken into and stolen from a neighbour's house, his parents and sisters can't believe it. Then the unthinkable happens: an attack that will rip through the town and his family for years to come. Just a Boy is a gripping, incisive novel about secrets, adolescence and how we can love someone - a child, a partner - without ever knowing their mind. Praise for The Times bestseller Can You Hear Me? 'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian 'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop,

Two Roads

'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent A gripping novel about family, loss and secrets, from the author of The Times&nbsp;bestselling sensation Can You Hear Me? The boy is almost eighteen and has a loving family. He's polite and well-educated, quiet but always smiling. When word spreads that he has broken into and stolen from a neighbour's house, his parents and sisters can't believe it. Then the unthinkable happens: an attack that will rip through the town and his family for years to come. Just a Boy&nbsp;is a gripping, incisive novel about secrets, adolescence and how we can love someone - a child, a partner - without ever knowing their mind. Praise for The Times&nbsp;bestseller Can You Hear Me? 'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian 'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop &nbsp;

A riveting coming-of-age story with the precision of a Hitchcock noir by a masterful new voice in Italian literature."Suspenseful and elegiac, as beautiful as it is horrifying." --Karen Dionne"A densely layered psychological mystery." --Chicago Tribune"Reads like a collaboration between Daphne du Maurier and Megan Abbott." --The Irish Times Over the course of one oppressively hot summer in the small town of Ponte, in northern Italy, one family's secrets are revealed and the community is torn apart by a terrible crime. Sixteen-year-old Elia Furenti lives with his parents in a secluded house, a tight-knit family whose rhythms are dictated by the shifts in his father's emotional state. When the closure of the nearby factory leaves Elia's father without a job, however, home becomes an increasingly fraught environment. With the summer heat pressing down, Elia's father begins to spiral, his moods becoming increasingly dark and erratic, while Elia's mother refuses to acknowledge that anything has changed. Meanwhile, a forbidden relationship blossoms, as Elia seeks refuge from the silence and tension at home. Events reach a breaking point one moonlit night, when a young woman climbs into a van and is taken into the deep, dark woods . . .

Can You Hear Me?

Literary

La vita felice (Italian Edition)

Contemporary

Einaudi

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