num_pages: 20
description: From the author of THE SECRET HISTORY comes a dark, suspenseful novel of lost childhood. Harriet Dusfresnes is a child in Mississippi, haunted by the murder of her brother when she was just a baby. He was found hanging from a tree in their backyard; his killer was never identified, nor did the family ever recover. Only Harriet's teenage sister might have seen what happened that day, and she has blocked it out from her memory. Harriet grows up immured by the family's lasting grief, living mostly in a world of her own imagination. But her dead brother Robin is a link to lost happier times. Therefore, in the summer of her twelfth year, she decides to find his murderer and exact her revenge...
language: English
title: The Little Friend
titlecomplete: The Little Friend (Audiobook on 20 CDs)
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: 66451
places: Alexandria, Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Books on Tape