description: A grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evilThe setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.
language: English
title: Little Friend
titlecomplete: Little Friend (5 X CD)
characters: Allison Dufresnes, Hely, Edie Cleve, Libby Cleve, Danny Ratliff, Ida Rhew, Harriet Dufresnes, Charlotte Cleve
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery Thriller, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 66449
places: Alexandria, Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Bloomsbury Audio