The Boy in the Park: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist. A Grayson J

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008239367

      Ebook Edition © February 2017 ISBN: 9780008239350

      Version: 2017-04-08

       Dedication

       For Rachael

       Epigraph

       I am not certain I may ever know, ever understand, that which makes death what it is and sorrow so sadly, desperately haunting. I am not sure what it is that lingers, once everything else is gone. But I know the boy, alive through all his torments, and perhaps that is enough. Perhaps we are not meant to know anything more cosmic than one child, one face, one set of hands. In them, I have found enough grief to encompass the whole of creation.

      —Dr Pauline Lavrentis

       Interview notes