The Farm
Book description
From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's APerfect Spy.
Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the…
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1 author picked The Farm as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Swedish-English author Tom Rob Smith made his smashing debut with the international best-seller Child 44, in 2008 which, after I devoured it, I figured he couldn’t supercede.
On the contrary – The Farm, a multi-layered, tricky, shape-shifting meditation on truth-telling – is now securely on my most-loved list. The premise is simple: Our narrator, Daniel, travels from his home in London to the remote farm in Sweden where he believes his parents are enjoying a pleasurable retirement, only to be warned by his mother that “everything that Father has told you is a lie…I need the police.”
The…
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