num_pages: 624
description: Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her bother Robin twelve years ago, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Helly to find Robin's murder and punish him. But what starts as a child's game soon becomes a dark and dangerous journey into menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.
language: English
title: The Little Friend
titlecomplete: The Little Friend
characters: Edie Cleve, Hely, Ida Rhew, Libby Cleve, Danny Ratliff, Harriet Dufresnes, Charlotte Cleve, Allison Dufresnes
genres: American, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 66449
places: Alexandria, Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Bloomsbury