A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER author of The
Dry'Irresistible a compelling psychological thriller.' PAULA HAWKINS author of The Girl on
the Train 'Vividly realised' VAL McDERMID'Brilliant.' SJ WATSON author of Before I Go to Sleep
When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods she believes
like most girls her age that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that
night but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of
the small town of Whistling Ridge its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment.
Even within Abi's family there are questions to be asked - of Noah the older brother whom Abi
betrayed of Jude the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars of Dolly her mother
and Samuel her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire
town in his grasp. Then there is Rat the outsider whose presence in the town both unsettles
and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge this tinder box of
small-town rage and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened
that night out at the Tall Bones.... 'Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive
claustrophobia of the small town... Extremely well written... fantastic.' HARRIET TYCE author
of Blood Orange 'A clever twisting debut about the dark side of small town America. It is
packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.' FRANCINE TOON author of Pine '[Its
portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible.' VAL McDERMID 'Smart and compassionate
full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets
and the dark shameful underbelly of small town life.' TAMMY COHEN author of Stop at Nothing
'Tall Bones is as brutal as bittersweet as tender and as tense as first love itself.' EMMA
FLINT author of Little Deaths 'Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets - a stunning debut that
delivers on every level.' RENEE KNIGHT author of Disclaimer 'Chilling and compulsive. Tall
Bones is a dazzling debut.' KATE HAMER author of The Girl in the Red Coat 'A terrific debut
about guilt secrets and complex family dynamics... Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch.'
LUCY ATKINS author of Magpie Lane
