The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
Short stories by Sophie Hannah _

First ever short story collection by acclaimed and best selling author of Little Face and Hurting Distance.

The Secret’s finally out…but beware, once you’ve read Sophie Hannah’s fantastic stories, everyday life will never seem the same again...

Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man's house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs?  Why does a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? What is the former deputy director of a literature festival doing sorting soiled laundry in a shabby hotel?

All will be revealed...but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, everyday life will never seem quite the same again.

Born 1971, Sophie Hannah is that rare thing, an acclaimed and best selling poet who has also stormed the crime fiction charts. Her first psychological crime novel, Little Face (Hodder Headline, 2006) gained stellar reviews, was No 1 in Amazon Crime charts and has sold over 100,000 copies. Her second, Hurting Distance (Hodder Headline, 2007), looks set to achieve similar critical and commercial success. Sophie Hannah lives in Yorkshire with her husband and two young children.

PRAISE FOR SOPHIE HANNAH’S PREVIOUS BOOKS:

‘Hannah’s comic gift for unravelling the relationship maze makes the complexities of domestic life interesting again.’ The Independent

‘The author brings a wealth of psychological and literary subtlety to bear…smart and disarmingly unnerving.’  Daily Mail

‘Her observations about what lies beneath the surface of other people’s lives are intelligently made and beautifully written.’ Irish Independent

‘People talk about “the Wow! Factor” and this book has got it... An excellent and indulgent read.’  Times Books Group

‘Hannah has a keen ear for her characters’ foibles, snobberies and hypocrisies, and the observation remains acute throughout.’  The Observer

‘Superb… good, old-fashioned spine-tingling stuff, but also a fine modern thriller… One of those “I must find out what happened” books.’  The Times

‘A chilling thriller….I was left thinking about the book for days.’ Matthew Lewin, The Guardian

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Pub date March 27th 2008
ISBN 978-0-95489-954-7

Price £7.99
Format B-paperback

Contents page and first two stories

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