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The Mystery of Henri Pick (Walter Presents)
Current price:
$16.95
Publication Date: September 1st, 2020
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
ISBN:
9781782275824
Pages:
288
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Description
The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books
In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it.
The book is a sensation, prompting fevered interest in the identity of its author - apparently one Henri Pick, a now-deceased pizza chef from Crozon. Sceptics cry that the whole thing is a hoax: how could this man have written such a masterpiece? An obstinate journalist, Jean-Michel Rouche, heads to Brittany to investigate.
By turns farcical and moving, The Mystery of Henri Pick is a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books - and of the authors who write them.
Curley #108
Praise for The Mystery of Henri Pick (Walter Presents)
"A delight with a novel premise." — CrimeReads
"The Mystery of Henri Pick is so ridiculously French that if it started smoking Gitanes while you read it, you wouldn’t be entirely surprised." — The Sunday Times Culture magazine
"This book is light, funny and erudite: a delight." — The Guardian
"A charming literary caper... A playfully droll satire of the French publishing scene and a completely delightful jeu d’esprit." — The Daily Mail
"Written with humour, wit and intelligence, it's set in a world of books and publishing. I really enjoyed it." — TripFiction
"The Mystery of Henri Pick manages the great gap between levity and profundity, between humour and seriousness. A beautiful farce." — Le Figaro Littéraire
