For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Anna Bailey - fan (to be),

a new, signed, limited 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of

Anna Bailey

Tall Bones

doubleday / Goldsboro, London / UK, 2021

Your copy is number 792 (of 1500). It is new and flat signed by Anna Bailey in black pen directly to the title / limitation page. It comes with a blue and white stencilled front edge echoing the design of the front and end papers, an interesting, semi-transparent dust jacket and a protective mylar cover.

"When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi's family, there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones ..." (penguin.co.uk)

"Anna Bailey was born in Bristol in 1995 and spent her childhood in Gloucestershire. She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa university and wanted to become a journalist, but ended up moving to Colorado and becoming a Starbucks barista instead. In 2018 she returned to the UK, where she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-writing course and wrote her first novel, Tall Bones, inspired by her experience of living in small-town America. Twitter: @annafbailey Instagram: @annabaileywrites" (penguin.co.uk)