A taut, twisty novel about a woman determined to avenge her sister's murder-and the killer who must confront his own ghosts
Birdie Keller wakes up one freezing January morning to hear that her sister's killer has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. She's been waiting two decades to get him, biding her time: here, at last, revenge.
But every story has two sides. Because Jimmy Maguire, the man she's after, knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she'd sooner forget. They've got history, and he isn't the only one with a secret.
As Jimmy travels south to face his past-a tangled web of family ties and broken bonds-he can sense that something is hunting him. Birdie lingers there in the darkness, but so does a terrible truth he's run from all these years-one he's never had the courage to face.
Propulsive, haunting, and deeply moving, The Sunshine Man asks us how far we would go to fight for family we never really had. Emma Stonex is the author of The Lamplighters, which was her debut novel under her own name, and several other books written under a pseudonym. Before becoming a writer, she worked as an editor at a major publishing house. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two young daughters.
