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When I Was Ten is the stay-up-all-night thriller by acclaimed crime author Fiona Cummins.

‘Grips like a vice’ – Val McDermid
‘Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced’ - Daily Mail

Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age.

Their ten year-old daughter – nicknamed the Angel of Death – spent eight years in a children’s secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own.

Now, on the anniversary of the trial, a documentary team has tracked down her older sister, compelling her to break two decades of silence.

Her explosive interview sparks national headlines and journalist Brinley Booth, a childhood friend of the Carter sisters, is tasked with covering the news story.

For the first time, the three women are forced to confront what really happened that night – with devastating consequences for them all.

‘I finished it with my heart in my mouth. Highly recommended’ – Louise Candlish

‘Dark, creepy and ultimately compassionate . . . a chilling look at the consequences of a childhood gone wrong’ – JP Delaney

‘Utterly compelling; a true just-one-more-chapter thriller’ – Clare Mackintosh

‘Pacy, dark and surprises to the bitter end. Loved it’ – Fiona Barton

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15. April 2021
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An unimaginable crime has devastating consequences twenty-one years on, in this thrilling novel by rising star of crime fiction Fiona Cummins. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: hardcover.

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Fiona Cummins evokes the dark arts of journalism and politics with an insider’s relish in this rich, intricately woven novel of childhood crime and adult redemption. I finished it with my heart in my mouth. Highly recommended -- Louise Candlish on When I Was Ten

This thriller explores typically dark territory for this author, who has a gift for tapping a rich seam of evil that underpins the surface of the every day. Superbly sinister -- Sunday Mirror on The Neighbour

'Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced' ― Daily Mail

She is the master of depicting the way the most terrifyingly grotesque and evil psychopaths inveigle their way into the lives of ordinary people . . . When writing from the perspective of ordinary people caught up in horrific events, Fiona Cummins is unbeatable -- Jake Kerridge on The Neighbour ― Sunday Express

The Neighbour is masterfully written and intricately plotted to keep the reader captivated until a hugely enjoyable finale -- Jon Coates ― Daily Express

A crime novel of the very first order -- David Baldacci on The Collector

Creepy as hell and kept me guessing to the very end -- Ian Rankin on The Neighbour

Trust me – Cummins is a keeper -- Lee Child on The Collector

It’s rare that a debut has this much polish. Harrowing and horrifying, head and shoulders above most of the competition -- Val McDermid on Rattle

Pretty much held my breath for the last twenty pages. It’s sensational -- Clare Empson, author of Him and Mine -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: hardcover.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B082NYXFYS
Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Pan (15. April 2021)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Dateigröße ‏ : ‎ 1355 KB
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Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 356 Seiten

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Fiona Cummins ist Journalistin und schreibt für große britische Tageszeitungen und Magazine, wenn sie nicht gerade an einem Roman arbeitet. Ihre »Knochensammler«-Thriller sorgten noch vor Erscheinen international für großes Aufsehen und werden fürs Fernsehen verfilmt. Fiona Cummins lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Kindern in Essex.

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Had my jaw hitting the floor like a jackhammer

Kundenrezension aus Deutschland 🇩🇪 am 19. April 2021

With a sizzlingly paced narrative and enough twists to set your head spinning, this story of murder, secrets and lies had my jaw hitting the floor like a jackhammer.

When I Was Ten by has everything: punchy prose, a razor sharp plot, and an atmosphere dripping with suffocating, nerve-twanging tension.

Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in an infamous double murder. Their 10 year-old daughter spent eight years in a children’s secure unit and is now married with a family and a new identity.

When a documentary team tracks down her older sister, the explosive interview that follows sparks national headlines. In a quirk of fate, the journalist tasked with covering the story is a childhood friend of the Carter sisters.

Now, for the first time, the three women are forced to confront the truth of what happened that night two decades ago.

The plot is genius. A child killer, a double murder, a sister seeking reconciliation, a journalist hunting down the scoop of her life.

As Cummins expertly weaves her tale, she coaxes you into making assumptions, then blows them out of the water in small explosive bursts that leave you almost speechless with disbelief.

Then just when you think it’s all over, she hits you with a final twist that is utterly, utterly brilliant.

Cummins’ characters are wholly convincing and the story scarily plausible — the lies told in innocence, the misplaced loyalties, the secrets held close for 20 years. And while parts of the narrative are sinister and disturbing, they are necessarily so.

All the plot elements hold together beautifully to make this one of the best psychological thrillers I’ve read in years.

Thanks for reading my review. I hope you found it helpful. You can find more candid book reviews on my Amazon profile page.

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A novel that had great potential ... but fell disappointingly short.

Kundenrezension aus Großbritannien 🇬🇧 am 20. April 2021

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Rating: 2.2/5

Based on the synopsis and early reviews that were almost exclusively very positive, I was very much looking forward to reading "When I Was Ten". Having devoured the early sections of the novel, I was still very much of the opinion that it was the kind of book I was going to enjoy. Unfortunately, the more I read, the less impressed I became, and ultimately found it quite disappointing.

The premise of the story, which takes its inspiration from the real life story of Mary Bell, offered great potential. Dr Richard Carter and his wife, Pamela, are a couple much respected in their local community. When they become victims of parricide at the hands of one of their young daughters, the story becomes nationwide headline news. Two decades later, on the anniversary of the trial, one of the two daughters decides to break her long silence and the shocking double murder is catapulted into the media once again.

There are elements of the book that are done well and make for fairly compelling reading, but unfortunately, there were too many facets that didn't quite work. Even after making allowance for artistic licence, there were too many aspects of the storyline that stretched credulity too far. On a separate point, there is a plot thread involving a senior politician (whose superficial and stereotypical depiction is disappointing in any case) that is never properly woven into the main narrative. It felt as if the author had come up the seed of an idea for a sub-plot, but then didn't really know how to develop it for maximum impact. Ultimately, the link to the central plot was pretty tenuous.

Stylistically, I also found the narrative awkward to follow at times. The story is told from three viewpoints: Sara Carter, the younger daughter; Brinley Booth, the childhood friend of the Carter girls and now a journalist; and a third, initially anonymous contributor, whose identity is not formally made known to the reader until later in the piece. However, there is no clear signposting as to which individual is providing the narrative at any given point. It is only really apparent once you establish that Sara' s viewpoints are written in the third person, while Brinley's are always in the first person. The anonymous third contributor also uses the first person, but these sections are printed in italics. So, not impossible to work out, but not exactly reader-friendly.

Based on the marks that other reviewers have awarded, my opinion on this novel may prove to be a bit of an outlier, but I can't help feeling that it had the potential to be something very good, but ultimately fell disappointingly short.

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Jo Hogan

Thrilling and beautifully written crime story by a writer at the top of her game

Kundenrezension aus Großbritannien 🇬🇧 am 18. April 2021

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The girl is twelve and she is running…The grown ups are dead. From the very first page of When I Was Ten, you know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller, and what a story this is. As other reviewers have noted, it is hard to do this book justice without revealing spoilers, but I will try. You will know from the blurb and PR that a young girl murdered her parents with scissors, and that much of the action centres around her imminent release from prison. But the fascination derives from the clever way that Fiona Cummins switches between the past and the present, making the reader doubt just who is truly guilty, and the anxiety and tension grows as we wonder what horrors will befall who next. Like all the best crime novels, this is not just a ‘who-done-it’, it is a 'why-did-they-do-it?' Fiona Cummins unique skill is that she operates in the grey area between good and evil, forcing us to question why do seemingly ordinary people do extraordinarily bad things? And confronted with similar circumstances, would we act any differently? Fiona Cummins manages to write without blinking about some of the things it is easier to look away from, but with a humanity and sensitivity that is rare in this genre. She writes beautifully about some truly terrible things - I had to buy another book to give to my friends because my own copy was ruined by the pages and passages I had marked. This is an immersive, thrilling, and beautifully told crime story by a writer at the top of her game. Highly recommend this book and indeed anything by Fiona Cummins.

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3.5 stars worth a read

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I have to be honest the first 6 or so chapters, I was struggling. I wasn’t a fan of Catherine or her husband and to be honest the daughter Honor annoyed me as well.

I especially struggled with the chapter about Catherine going out to look for her daughter (no spoilers its an early chapter don’t worry) The reference to the cold and snow was incessant in my opinion. I think she talked about lighting a fire 3 times over a couple of pages in another chapter as well. Also no one seemed to be overly bothered that Honor wasn’t at school and Catherine seemed to give up after a while and went home to light the fire (again!)

BUT then its shifts to a different timeline, the story of 2 sisters aged 10 and 12, and their best friend. How they were treated by both sets of parents, and how they had to endure incredibly difficult situations. I genuinely thought this was great writing, and I was hooked.

The story moves across these 2 times lines, with Catherine and Brinley’s point of view for both timeframes. You also get the odd anonymous letter. I think this all works really well.

The only addition that I didn’t see relevant was the MP storyline. There is a link, albeit tenuous and I didn’t think it added depth to the story and the ending of that storyline was unnecessary.

This was a love/hate book for me. I thought parts were brilliant, and fast paced but other parts dragged. There were also some questionable gaps in the story, but no spoilers here. So I’ll leave you to decide. There is a nifty little twist at the end, and it does keep you guessing various bits throughout, as it slowly drip feeds you.

If you love a good thriller I would say give it a go, I’m pleased I read it. But please don’t shout at me if it doesn’t quite live up to your thriller standards. 😊

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Kaffmatt

An ok read involving child abuse

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Not a bad read, at all. First part of the book is better than the following two parts. The theme of the storyline is based on domestic child abuse that results in murder. Although the murders maybe deserved (in some people’s views) the whole scenario has devastating effects on the lives of the three narrators involved. All three narrators are children at the time of the murders.
The author throws in a couple of twists, which I certainly didn’t expect and apart from me thinking, ‘not abuse again’ (seems to be a lot of child abuse books about) the plot did keep me interested/entertained.
I don’t agree with other reviewers that the inclusion of the misdeeds of the Minister for Justice was unnecessary. A good deal of the plot was reflected in media headlines and reporters fighting to get a story first, including one of the narrators who was a trainee journalist. In fact, the whole drama kicked off after another one of the narrators decided to speak to the media. The Minister put his foot in it good style, which would attract a front page spread.
All in all an ok read.

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Jacob Collins

Highly recommended!

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I’m a huge fan of Fiona Cummins’s writing, and I couldn’t wait to read her new novel When I Was Ten. This is a highly engaging read, and once I started it, I was hooked. This is a novel with a really intriguing premise. A family have been slaughtered; their children have been separated. But the horrifying part is that Dr Carter and his wife were murdered by one of their children. It’s why it has become one of the most talked about crimes of the modern age. But what really happened that night? What is the untold story?

In When I Was Ten, Fiona Cummins delves into the psychology of the characters at the centre of the crime. Now everything is about to change for them. An explosive new documentary is about to air, and new revelations are about to come to light when one of the Carter sisters speaks to the press. Fiona Cummins introduces us to two characters, Catherine and Brinley. Brinley works at a local newspaper, and as interest in the Carter case heightens again, her boss is after an exclusive interview with one of the Carter sisters. But what he doesn’t know is that Brinley once lived next door to the Carter family. She chooses to keep this to herself. Catherine is also a really intriguing character. You can see she is keeping secrets, and she is determined to make sure that her past stays buried.

As the novel progresses, Fiona Cummins takes us back in time. We see the events leading up to the murders of the Carter family, and she begins to build a picture of what really took place. As Fiona Cummins did reveal more about what happened at that time, I could see why the events escalated in the way they did. But I don’t want to go into any further detail here. The book darkens as we begin to understand the truth, and the darkness becomes palpable as we reach the horrifying conclusion. It asks a terrifying question, what can prompt a child to murder their parents?

The writing is taut right the way through, and I could not put this book down. The chapters are short and snappy, and I wanted to find out more about the characters. Fiona Cummins writes some horrific scenes when we go back to the time of the murders. This is when the bigger picture here begins to unravel.

Fiona Cummins is one of the best crime writers out there. If you haven’t yet discovered her books, then you really need to. I highly, highly recommend When I Was Ten! I’m sure this is going to be one of the most talked about thrillers of the year, and it deserves to be.

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