Quicksand

Author(s): Malin Persson Giolito

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Is this teenage girl a demonised victim or cold-blooded killer...? We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Secret History in this gripping novel about secrets and murder, soon to be a Netflix TV series! Quicksand was Sweden's bestselling novel of 2017. 

The air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven't got so much as a bruise....

Is Maja a normal eighteen-year-old, the poster girl-next-door, popular and excelling at her schoolwork, caught in the middle of a terrible tragedy? Or is she the most reviled teenager in the country? 

Either way, everyone knows her name. She has spent nine excruciating months in jail, awaiting trial for a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, and now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom... 

***What people are saying about QUICKSAND***

'Compelling and brutally candid, especially about modern adolescence, this is not a comfortable book, but the story is so superbly told that it lingers in the mind long after the jury's verdictDaily Mail
  
'A suspenseful and addictive experience... [Giolito] expertly delves into the fickle psyche of the media and how they can change a story's narrative with one headline and she shames the press's tendency to report wild conjecture over facts... Though Giolito's perspective is Swedish, it absolutely translates to a greater global crisisReal Crime

'Giolito gives us the unsettling monologue of a teenage girl as she works her way through her role in murder. It is a splendid work of fiction' Kirkus Reviews

'Gioloto's novel is haunting and immersive' Publishers Weekly

'Mystery and intrigue in its purest form. Great book, recommended to all'Marg J., bookseller

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A fascinating, often uncomfortable, but thoroughly engrossing read'  Sarah B.

'Sweden's latest blockbuster thriller lives up to the hypeWashington Post

'Maja [is] a heroine you will not forget, victim of a toxic love story with a background so familiar to us nowadays... a super thriller - a real page-turner'
Mariagrazia M.

'I have never read a book by a Swedish author so when Quicksand became available I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to try. I certainly wasn't disappointed' Diane Hogg, NetGalley Reviewer 5*

 'A really powerful book' Netgalley reviewer Sarah Bell, Netgalley reviewer 4* 

'A fast-paced and intriguing mystery that was easy to read and kept me turning the pages' Kimberely Knight, Netgalley reviewer 4*

 
 

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781471165092
  • : Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • : Simon & Schuster UK
  • : 0.438
  • : February 2017
  • : 235mm X 155mm X 28mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 400
  • : 517
  • : Paperback
  • : Malin Persson Giolito