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by Adam S. Leslie
Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby. Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so many, went and never came back.
Rachel has a mysterious package to deliver, and her life depends on it. And Antonia—poor, lovestruck Antonia just wants the chance to spend the day with Heather.
So off they set through the idyllic yet perilous English countryside, in which nature thrives in abundance and summer lasts forever. And as they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave radio, the harder it becomes to tell friend from foe.
Creepy, dreamlike, unsettling and unforgettable—you are about to join the privileged few who come to understand exactly why we don't go to Almanby.
Nero Book Awards, 2024Media reviews not yet available.
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Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Adam S. Leslie is a novelist, screenwriter, musician and singer-songwriter. He also once spent a morning as a stuntman on a major Hollywood movie, but his scene was deleted.
Covering a broad range of styles, his native genres include magical realism, conceptual science fiction, puzzle-box thriller, satire, experimental, surrealist comedy and the occasional foray into the spookier end of horror.
His first novel, Kaleidoscope, was published by Crooked Cat in August 2013.
Adam likes cocktails, cakes, old records, racing cars, the Marx Brothers and snails (but not to eat).
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