Gripping yet hilarious, suspenseful and sad - a brilliant debut for fans of Fargo, The Dry, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and Noah Hawley.
Chris Whitaker was born in London and spent ten years working as a financial trader in the city. When not writing he enjoys football, boxing, and anything else that distracts him from his wife and two young sons. Tall Oaks is his first novel.
Noir has an anarchic new voice
*Sarah Hilary*
A brilliant, beautiful, sad, funny book . . . It made me laugh, but
it also made me cry more than any other book I've read this
year
*Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths*
Tall Oaks is a pleasingly unusual mixture of psychological thriller
and screwball comedy from a young writer who is clearly not afraid
to take risks . . . its combination of verve, humour and pathos
make it well worth a read. An absolute delight . . . highly
original
*The Guardian*
A perpetually fascinating read
*Heat*
It's rare that a novel can be both brilliantly comic and tragic,
and balance the two so effortlessly but this tale does exactly that
- with a tense rollercoaster of a story. A fine debut
*Sun*
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