{"product_id":"my-sunshine-away","title":"My Sunshine Away","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary debut novel from M. O. Walsh, a dazzling new literary voice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to Woodland Hills, Louisiana: a place of lush, sweltering summers, neighbourhood cookouts in every backyard and vats of chilled beer under the crepe myrtles. A terrible crime is just about to take place...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caught.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer fourteen year old neighbour has cherished a crush on Lindy, the ultimate girl next door, since they were kids. After her assault he becomes determined to solve the crime, investigating each suspect in the neighbourhood. But before this long, hot summer is out, it will become clear that the friendly community of Woodland Hills has much to hide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBehind every white picket fence in suburbia lies a tangled web of darkness. In his zeal to solve the mystery, the teenage detective stumbles across a sinister world he doesn't recognise, drawing ever closer to a terrifying denouement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary debut novel from a unique new literary voice. Childhood in small-town America is filled with dreamy, technicolour days of innocence, but beneath the homely comforts and familiarity, this world is rotten to its very core. For every fan of \u003ci\u003eThe Lovely Bones \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a new and haunting tale of disturbance in suburbia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eTry and restrain yourself from flying through the pages of this wonderful novel\u003c\/b\u003e. Instead savour this lush Louisiana mystery that takes you back to what life tasted like when you were still somewhat naïve to the ways of the world. Not just Southern but American in its vivid Baton Rouge colours and scents, treetops and grasses... \u003cb\u003eThe last page is as satisfying as the first. A mystery you cannot wait to solve.\u003c\/b\u003e\" -Kathryn Stockett, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eThis is literature of the highest order. \u003c\/b\u003eAlthough the book snaps with the tautness of a thriller, \u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away\u003c\/i\u003e also asks essential questions, like how much responsibility we have to each other, and whether we can we ever fully reassemble the pieces of broken lives. \u003cb\u003eWe need more novelists with the guts and clarity of M.O. Walsh.\u003c\/b\u003e\" --Matthew Thomas, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIf you start this novel, you will not put it down.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting, suspenseful, page-turning mystery. It is also a wise, insightful, and beautifully written novel. This is an extraordinary debut.\" --Jill McCorkle, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can't praise it enough... I am swept up in the quiet beauty of the prose, and in the wisdom and compassion of the narrator. \u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away\u003c\/i\u003e is not a thriller; it is a page turner and it's realism at its finest. It's about love, obsession, and pain. \u003cb\u003eA beautiful, remarkable book. I hope M.O. Walsh writes many more.\u003c\/b\u003e\" -Anne Rice, #1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePrince Lestat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Walsh's \u003cb\u003eword-perfect rendering \u003c\/b\u003eof the doubts, insecurities, bravado, and idealism of teens deserves to be placed in the hands of readers of \u003cb\u003eTom Franklin, Hannah Pittard, and Jeffrey Eugenides\u003c\/b\u003e...\" \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away\u003c\/i\u003e is that \u003cb\u003erarest find, a page-turner you want to read slowly and a literary novel you can't look away from.\u003c\/b\u003e At times funny, at times spine-tinglingly suspenseful, and at times wise... It's a book to read and reread. I'm already excited about M. O. Walsh's next book.\" -Tom Franklin, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"M.O. Walsh has written \u003cb\u003eone of the best books I've read in a long while\u003c\/b\u003e. An outstanding examination of the way that the past and the weight of our memories shape us... \u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away\u003c\/i\u003e feels \u003cb\u003eutterly original\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -Kevin Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Family Fang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Sunshine Away \u003c\/i\u003eis so much more than a mystery; it's [a] love letter to youth and to possibility. \u003cb\u003eThis is an awe-inspiring debut, magic.\u003c\/b\u003e\" -Hannah Pittard, author of \u003ci\u003eReunion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fates Will Find Their Way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"M. O. 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