Libro: It's a Thin Division

A compelling, immersive and moving crime story of revenge and self-worth.

"A novel that gets under your skin and won’t let you go!”
Nikki Gemmell - best-selling novelist & award-winning journalist

Ellen is five when she is adopted by charismatic artist Frank and his distant wife, Harriet. As the family moves between sun drenched Majorca and the grey streets of northeast England life becomes a tangle of secrets, betrayals, and tragedy.
A terrifying explosion tears the family apart, leaving Ellen injured, orphaned, and alone. Years later, she reinvents herself as a respectable teacher, but her marriage to Walter, a controlling American, drags her back into the shadows of her past. Forced to become “Helena,” she develops her own unsettling way of dealing with cruelty.
When Ellen is finally reunited with her long lost brother Paul nearly five decades later, the truth of her strange and dreadful behaviour comes to light. Her final act leaves the police—and everyone who thought they knew her—stunned.
“It´s a Thin Division” is a haunting story of identity, trauma, and the quiet violence of a life lived behind masks.