{"product_id":"quicksand-9781471160356","title":"Quicksand","description":"\u003cp\u003e**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Secret History.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven't got so much as a bruise....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs Maja a normal eighteen-year-old, the poster girl-next-door, popular and excelling at her schoolwork, caught in the middle of a terrible tragedy? Or is she guilty of the tragedy itself?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEither way, everyone knows her name. She has spent nine excruciating months in jail, awaiting trial for a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, and now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWHAT WILL YOU BELIEVE?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the 'compelling and brutally candid' (Daily Mail) story of a girl whose guilt was decided long before her trial - as searing as it is timely and moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e***What people are saying about QUICKSAND***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSensitive, moving and absorbing' Marcel Berlins, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is the evolution of Scandinavian crime, in more ways than one' Fredrik Backman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Compelling and brutally candid, especially about modern adolescence, this is not a comfortable book, but the story is so superbly told that it lingers in the mind long after the jury's verdict' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A suspenseful and addictive experience... [Giolito] expertly delves into the fickle psyche of the media and how they can change a story's narrative with one headline and she shames the press's tendency to report wild conjecture over facts... Though Giolito's perspective is Swedish, it absolutely translates to a greater global crisis' Real Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Giolito gives us the unsettling monologue of a teenage girl as she works her way through her role in murder. It is a splendid work of fiction' Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Gioloto's novel is haunting and immersive' Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Mystery and intrigue in its purest form. Great book, recommended to all' Marg J., bookseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A fascinating, often uncomfortable, but thoroughly engrossing read' Sarah B.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sweden's latest blockbuster thriller lives up to the hype' Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Maja [is] a heroine you will not forget, victim of a toxic love story with a background so familiar to us nowadays... a super thriller - a real page-turner'\u003cbr\u003e\nMariagrazia M.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I have never read a book by a Swedish author so when Quicksand became available I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to try. I certainly wasn't disappointed' Diane Hogg, NetGalley Reviewer 5*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977188380838,"sku":"9781471160356","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/quicksand-9781471160356-28512540590258.jpg?v=1656101567","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/quicksand-9781471160356","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}