Emma Stonex in conversation - The Sunshine Man

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Emma Stonex bestselling author of The Lamplighters has been drawn back to the South West for the setting of her new novel,The Sunshine Man, a thriller focussing on the revenge sought by a woman determined to track down the killer of her sister upon his release from prison. Set inland on the moors as well as the Cornish coast it finallyreturnsto Devon, where it all began. A story of a terrible crime that shakes a community and a revenge plotted over decades. It is a tangled mystery about love, grief and how our childhood experiences play out in the rest of our lives.

The week I shot a man through the head began like any other... Birdie Keller wakes up one freezing January morning to hear that her sisters killer has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. Shes been waiting two decades to get him, biding her time: here, at last, revenge. So begins a cat-and-mouse chase that takes Birdie from the grit and grime of city nicks to wild and windswept moors, to the savage beauty of the Cornish coast, and, finally, to Devon, her homeland, back to the place where it all began as she vows to finish the story. But every story has two sides. Because Jimmy Maguire, the man shes after, knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life shed sooner forget. Theyve got history, and he isnt the only one with a secret. As Jimmy travels south to face his past - a tangled web of family ties and broken bonds he can sense that something is hunting him. Birdie lingers there in the darkness, but so does a terrible truth hes run from all these years one hes never had the courage to confront.

The Sunshine Man is a masterful literary thriller, a deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner. One of my books of the year - Lucy Clarke, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Castaways and One of the Girls.

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