The Face - Softcover

Whitaker, Phil

 
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When Ray Arthur, a retired detective, is killed mysteriously in a road accident, his daughter Zoë is shattered. Her need to understand his life, and the circumstances of his death, sends her home to the town in which she grew up. She tracks down Declan, a former police artist and a one-time friend of her father's. Through their fraught encounters, a terrible picture of guilt and betrayal emerges. With forensic skill, Phil Whitaker peels back the layers of distortion and family myth to expose the truth about Ray Arthur's friendship with Declan and their secret collaboration over a dreadful crime against a young girl. A dark portrayal of the sexual chemistry within families, The Face is a deeply grown-up novel that lives in the imagination long after the final page. Its compellingportrayals of public and private lives ask fundamental questions about guilt and innocence, flesh and blood, and whether we can ever truly know another person.

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Phil Whitaker is the author of three previous novels: Eclipse of the Sun, which won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award; Triangulation, which was joint winner of the Encore Award for best second novel, and The Face, which was published in 2001. Freak of Nature was published by Atlantic in 2007.
A doctor by profession, Phil lives in Somerset with his wife and children. www.philwhitaker.co.uk

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ISBN 10:  1843541432 ISBN 13:  9781843541431
Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2003
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