01454ojm 2200253z- 450 991014877960332120230912161814.00-00-721893-1(CKB)3710000000922955(BIP)014060439(EXLCZ)99371000000092295520231107c2005uuuu -u- -engAmerican BoyHarperCollins UKTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKAvailable for the first time as a downloadable audio file.England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues.Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies - a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?823/.914Taylor Andrew688573Nicholl KatiothJennings AlexothAUDIO9910148779603321American Boy3648225UNINA