Guilty One, Paperback

A major debut novel, which was one of the biggest books of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011. Psychological and suspenseful, it follows Daniel Hunter, a lawyer employed to defend an 11 year old boy who's accused of murdering another child. The case leads Daniel to remember his own childhood and his foster mother Minnie, who betrayed him. With appeal to fans of Lionel Shriver, Maggie O'Farrell and Rosamund Lupton.