{"product_id":"9781913193287-ash-mountain","title":"Ash Mountain","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA devastating, disaster-noir thriller from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSingle-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A heartbreaking, nail-biting disaster-noir thriller from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorst Case Scenario\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novel’ \u003cb\u003eErin Kelly, author of \u003ci\u003eWatch Her Fall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Tantalisingly powerful’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eAsh Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is the author at her masterly best … I loved it!’ \u003cb\u003eLouise Candlish, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFran hates her hometown, and she thought she’d escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe returns home to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town of Ash Mountain, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem, she falls in love for the first time, and her demanding dad tests her patience, all in the unbearable heat of an Australian summer. As past friendships and rivalries are renewed, and new ones forged, Fran’s tumultuous home life is the least of her worries, when old crimes rear their heads and a devastating bushfire ravages the town and all of its inhabitants…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimultaneously a warm, darkly funny portrait of small-town life – and a woman and a land in crisis – and a shocking and truly distressing account of a catastrophic event that changes things forever, \u003ci\u003eAsh Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is a heart-breaking slice of domestic noir, and a disturbing disaster thriller that you will never forget…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event, and \u003ci\u003eAsh Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is magnificent’ \u003cb\u003eMark Billingham, author of \u003ci\u003eRabbit Hole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘There is plenty of human depravity in the plot but none of that is as terrifyingly overmastering as the fire’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this – but that only makes you hungry for more’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Dark, atmospheric and terrifying’ \u003cb\u003eAmbrose Parry, author of \u003ci\u003eA Corruption of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Compelling’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Helen FitzGerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***Worst Case Scenario was Shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2020***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The plotting is intricate and beautifully handled, and the narrative pace is absolutely breakneck … a wonderful, energetic, hard-hitting and deeply funny novel’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The main character is one of the most extraordinary you’ll meet between the pages of a book’ \u003cb\u003eIan Rankin, author of \u003ci\u003eA Song for the Dark times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh out loud funny at the same time’ \u003cb\u003eMark Edwards, author of \u003ci\u003eThe House Guest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this – but that only makes you hungry for more’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57538788622710,"sku":"9781913193287","price":6.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31826450.jpg?v=1774336633","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913193287-ash-mountain","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}