Painted House gripping crime thriller Sunday Times

In rural Arkansas, sevenyearold farm boy Luke Chandler lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents. When the cotton is ready to be harvested, the Chandlers hire a group of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks the group pick cotton, battling the heat, rain, fatigue, and sometimes each other. During this time, Luke sees and hears things no sevenyearold should witness. Can he keep the secrets that could threaten his familys business and change their lives forever?A Painted House is a moving story of one boys journey from innocence to experience, drawn from the personal experience of legendary legal thriller author John Grisham. A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hairraising crescendos Irish IndependentJohn Grisham is the master of legal fiction Jodi PicoultThe best thriller writer alive Ken FollettJohn Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fastpaced thrillers Telegraph Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller The TimesGrishams storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own. Daily RecordMasterful when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real theyre not just alive, theyre pulsating MirrorA giant of the thriller genre TimeOut | John Grisham A Painted House : A gripping crime thriller from the Sunday Times