Just A Boy (A gripping, heartbreaking novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Can You Hear Me?) - Elena Varvello

, Move over Ferrante, theres a new Elena in town IndependentA 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. Hes polite and well-educated, quiet but always smiling. When word spreads that he has broken into and stolen from a neighbours house, his parents and sisters cant 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 GuardianUtterly gripped me from beginning to end Victoria Hislop,