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Published 3 October 2011
ISBN 9781921758577
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 440pp
AU Price $32.95
NZ Price $40.00

Little Star



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Lennart Cederström, embittered ex-pop singer, is foraging for mushrooms when he finds a baby left for dead in a plastic bag. He revives her and is utterly astonished by the sound of her crying: the child's voice is a clear, haunting, perfectly pitched note. 
Lennart decides the girl will be his project. Raised in isolation, untainted by the dross and banality of the everyday, she will become the vehicle for a pure, exquisite music. He installs the baby in the basement and threatens to kill his downtrodden wife if she breathes a word. But their delinquent son Jerry is a harder case and his ideas for the infant prodigy, whom he names Theres, involve talent shows, celebrity and enormous success. 
Meanwhile the child is growing up and developing a few ideas of her own. Only hers involve a hammer. A hammer, and a very strong taste for violence and a strange ambition to appear on Swedish Idol.
Imagine what will happen when she finds a friend who shares her interests.

Published 3 October 2011
ISBN 9781921758577
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 440pp
AU Price $32.95
NZ Price $40.00

About the author

John Ajvide Lindqvist

John Ajvide Lindqvist lives in Sweden. His first novel, Let the Right One In, was published in thirty countries and adapted into two feature films.

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Praise for Little Star

'Horror fans will rejoice.' Age

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'Brilliant and unexpected.' Weekend Australian

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'A delicate balance between macabre and moving.' Sunday Telegraph

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'Could be the one horror novel not to be missed this year.' Courier-Mail

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'A dangerously imaginative man.' Herald Sun

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'Fabulously creepy.' Jennifer Byrne

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