The Little Friend

Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [x], 546, [6]. Pictorial wraps. No. 659 of an edition of 940. Published simultaneously with the U.S. edition.

Signed by Author to title-page. T.L.S. by Bloomsbury Editor-in-Chief, Alexandra Pringle, laid-in. With publisher's page-marker, also laid-in.

Author's second novel, published a decade after her roman à clef debut, The Secret History (1992). Winner of the WH Smith Literary Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003. An exploration of crime and punishment in rural Mississippi as years after the horrific event, a precocious girl seeks out the murderer of her nine-year old brother, found hanging from an ancient black-tupelo tree in the family's back yard. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Goldfinch. "Destined to become a special kind of classic." –New York Times