The Twelve Lives Of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

The Blurb On The Back:

After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter Loo to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife’s hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother’s mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past, a past that eventually spills over into his daughter’s present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come.

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The Verdict:

Hannah Tinti’s literary thriller is an absorbing and well-structured read that combines Loo’s coming-of-age tale with a look back at the mistakes in Samuel’s past that return to haunt him to form a novel that made me care about the pair of them and kept me gripped from beginning to end.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.