Hanover Square Press
September 2018
On Sale: September 4, 2018
304 pages ISBN: 1335652922 EAN: 9781335652928 Kindle: B0781P7HWF Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the familyβs housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husbandβs faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye.
Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study. Samuelβs life is otherwise regulated by Ruth, who runs the house with an iron fist. Only she and Samuel know how brutally she enforces order.
As rumors in town begin to swirl, Samuel wonders whether something more sinister is afoot. Perhaps his mother did not leave but was murderedβby Ruth.
Artful, haunting and hurtling toward a psychological showdown, The Boy at the Keyhole is an incandescent debut about the precarious dance between truth and perception, and the shocking acts that occur behind closed doors.
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