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384 pages ; 24 cm Following one of the most critically acclaimed fiction debuts in years, New York Times bestselling author Tom Rachman returns with an intrically woven novel about a young woman trying to piece together the puzzle of her mysterious childhood Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why did they take her? What did they really want? There was Humphrey, the curmudgeonly Russian with a passion for books; there was the charming but tempestuous Sarah; and there was Venn, the charismatic leader whose worldview transformed Tooly forever. Until, quite suddenly, he vanished. Years later, Tooly believes she will never know the true story of her own life. Then startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend, raising

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Author

Tom Rachman

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679643654

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.64 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14