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The Lost Thumb

(2019)
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'What a find. Pacey and intense (I galloped through the last 160 pages today)... I had to stay and sit at Victoria station until I finished it.' Rónán Hession

Lara and Luella Jeffreys lead isolated lives until the night they are left alone for the first time, and Luella decides to have some fun.That evening goes horribly wrong.After Luella wakes up in hospital, she’s kept prisoner at home with her mother acting as her warden. Lara is sent to school to keep up the pretence that she is fine, her sister is fine, and the world is fine. Except they aren’t. Sensing that something's wrong, the local storekeeper's son befriends Lara, but the results of his meddling are deadly...


Genre: Mystery

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