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by Manon Steffan Ros
From the acclaimed author of The Blue Book of Nebo comes a heartbreaking journey into a small town's grief when their beloved golden girl is found murdered.
Greta Pugh is dead.
The small village of Bethesda, Wales, is no stranger to tragedy. Once a thriving, prosperous community, the town has been marred by an ever-deepening class divide. But now, with rich and popular Greta Pugh found murdered in the local quarry, everyone in Bethesda is rattled, and all their secrets are at risk.
No one is more aware of this than Greta's friends, especially Shane, a classmate and the son of the Pughs' cleaner. Everyone knows more than they're letting on, but when the police and the media descend with all their probing questions, there's soon nowhere left to hide the answers.
As Shane watches the investigation unfold, he grapples with everything he knows about the Pugh family and all he's learning about the people around them. Each revelation brings the town a step closer to the truth of who killed Greta…but only one person may truly know why.
"A fast-paced tale of small-town drama that lacks depth and character." —Kirkus Reviews
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Manon Steffan Ros is one of the preeminent writers working in the Welsh language today. She has won many major literary prizes in Wales, and two of her books and one of her plays are featured on the Welsh national curriculum. Her first international English translation, The Blue Book Of Nebo (translated by Steffan Ros), was published by Deep Vellum in the United States in 2021 and in thirteen other languages. It won the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing in the United Kingdom.
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