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The Heights

Soon to be a major drama on 5 starring Anna Friel from the bestselling author of The Only Suspect

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The Heights

By: Louise Candlish
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt, Milo Twomey, Louise Candlish
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 COMING SOON TO CHANNEL 5 as a six-part drama series starring Anna Friel!

‘I didn’t read The Heights, I inhaled it’ LISA JEWELL

Devoted mum Ellen has always been protective of her golden boy, Lucas, who she shares with her ex-partner Vic.

But when sixth-former Lucas brings a new friend home, alarm bells ring. Kieran isn’t like Lucas. He’s rude, obnoxious and reckless, and Ellen despairs as her son falls deeper under his influence. Others say she’s obsessed, that she shouldn’t feud with a teenage boy, but Ellen knows to trust her instinct. Something bad is going to happen to Lucas – and it's going to be Kieran’s fault.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller about a mother’s bid for revenge from the award-winning author of Our House, The Only Suspect and The Other Passenger.

‘Tense, provocative, and devastatingly powerful’ TM LOGAN

‘Has everything you could possibly wish for - tragedy, obsession, revenge and, yes, love. Another finely-crafted masterpiece’ BA PARIS

‘Compelling, unexpected and beautifully written’ JANE FALLON

‘Impossible to resist, impossible to predict, impossible to put down … this is an author at the top of her game’ ERIN KELLY City Life Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Urban Fiction Thriller
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Critic Reviews

'It twists and it turns and it twists again. The Heights by Louise Candlish is the very definition of a “just one more chapter” novel. I devoured it. And it’s full of such great writing about the ferocity of maternal love'
(Hannah Beckerman, author of If Only I Could Tell You)
‘Impossible to resist, impossible to predict, impossible to put down… this is an author at the top of her game’
(Erin Kelly, author of Watch Her Fall)
'There’s nothing quite so chilling as the roar of mother tiger love. Louise Candlish had my heart in my throat. Dizzily dark. Dangerous. Deadly' (Jane Corry, author of The Lies We Tell)
'No one creates middle-class characters we love to hate quite like Louise Candlish. I’d expected her to do this, and to provide a great sense of place, and twists that would have been rifling through the book to see how they’d been done. What I wasn’t expecting was that this thriller of obsessive revenge and intense parental grief would tug at my heartstrings. Smart, addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended' (Sarah Vaughan, author of Little Disasters)
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Very well written. Colourful and realistic.
Great voices easy to listen to.
Thank you I enjoyed listening

Worth reading

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I became involved in the story and was kept interested. Good performance by all narrators.

Good yarn

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So tiring, the story line keeps promising intrigue but delivering only the same thing over and over again, the intrigue never comes. I thought about stopping and really wish I had, very boring the whole way through

Boring

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Ellen is mentally ill. Perhaps the boy was her son but what a mixed up life, she had as did her two husbands and daughter. I actually feel so sorry for the lad who let his friend drown. If he did, on purpose. I didn’t much like this book. It’s a whole tragedy.

Goodness what a tragedy

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