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The Sunshine Man

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The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . . In the freezing January of 1989, mother-of-two Birdie Keller wakes to the news she's been waiting seventeen years to hear: the man who destroyed her life has been freed... Read More
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The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .

In the freezing January of 1989, mother-of-two Birdie Keller wakes to the news she's been waiting seventeen years to hear: the man who destroyed her life has been freed from jail.

Birdie leaves for London with a gun and a plan: to find him and make him pay. But Birdie is about to enter a world she knows nothing about, of family lies and worn-out loyalties, of secrets and truth, of betrayal and forgiveness. In hunting down justice, she herself becomes hunted - and must ultimately face the echoes of a past she's never left behind.

The Sunshine Man is the suspenseful new novel from Emma Stonex, bestselling author of The Lamplighters.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529047370

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Picador

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Emma Stonex was born in 1983 and grew up in Northamptonshire. After working in publishing for several years, she quit to pursue her dream of writing fiction. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two young daughters.

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