LEADER 01454ojm 2200253z- 450 001 9910148779603321 005 20230912161814.0 010 $a0-00-721893-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000922955 035 $a(BIP)014060439 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000922955 100 $a20231107c2005uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aAmerican Boy 210 $cHarperCollins UK 330 8 $aTHE 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? 676 $a823/.914 700 $aTaylor$b Andrew$0688573 702 $aNicholl$b Kati$4oth 702 $aJennings$b Alex$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910148779603321 996 $aAmerican Boy$93648225 997 $aUNINA