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Shaye Areheart Books
June 2007
On Sale: May 22, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 030735122X
EAN: 9780307351227
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Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold
his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses
and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands
that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his
unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and
husband, reluctantly agrees. As he delves into his childhood memories, he begins to
recall things he hasn’t thought of in twenty years. Events,
people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd,
rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The
jovial mother who started dating too soon after his father’s
death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely,
then told him secrets he didn’t want to know. How no one
believed this new friend was real and that he was
responsible for the bad things that were happening. Terrified by all that he has forgotten, George struggles to
remember what really happened in the months following his
father’s death. Were his ominous visions and erratic
behavior the product of a grief-stricken child’s overactive
imagination (a perfectly natural reaction to the trauma of
loss, as his mother insisted)? Or were his father’s
colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force,
right to look to the supernatural as a means to end George’s
suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know.
But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering the
past becomes the only way George can protect himself–and his
young family. A psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s
The Secret History–with shades of The Exorcist–the smart and
suspenseful A Good and Happy Child leaves you questioning
the things you remember and frightened of the things you’ve
forgotten.
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