The Judas Tree
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From the author of The Haven and The Cliff House, this is a devastating thriller set in a Cornish boarding school.
âA gripping page-turnerâ Tammy Cohen, author of The Wedding Party
At a bleak boysâ boarding school in Cornwall in the eighties when bullying is rife, Will and his best friend, Luke, are involved in a horrific incident that results in Luke leaving.
Twenty-five years later their paths cross again and memories of a painful childhood come flooding back to haunt them both.
Willâs wife, Harmony, is struggling after a miscarriage that has hit her hard, and wishes Will would open up about what happened. But as Will withdraws further, she finds herself drawn to the charismatic stranger from her husbandâs past, Luke, and soon all three are caught in a tangled web of guilt and desire . . .
From Amanda Jennings, author of The Cliff House, comes a haunting thriller about betrayal and revenge.
Praise for The Judas Tree:
âThat rare thing â a gripping page-turner thatâs also emotionally intelligent and very moving. I gulped it downâ Tammy Cohen, author of The Wedding Party
âAstonishingly good and utterly hauntingâ Oxford Times
âA beautifully crafted tale. Emotional, dark and so very compellingâ Cesca Major, author of Maybe Next Time
âAMAZING. Real and disturbing and brilliant, and so beautifully written. The kind of book you want to TALK aboutâ Iona Grey, author of The Glittering Hour
âI LOVED itâ Miranda Dickinson, bestselling author of The Start of Something
âA beautiful, sharply written novel about how we carry the past with usâ Louise Beech, author of Nothing Else
âA compelling, moving and captivating book that had me hooked from the first pageâ Louise Douglas, bestselling author of The Room in the Attic
âA powerful story about the shadowlands that can connect people with long-held secrets . . . A really great readâ Claire Dyer, author of The Significant Others of Odie May
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Amanda Jennings has written six novels, and numerous short stories for anthologies and magazines, and is published both in the UK and abroad. She is a contributor to BBC Radio Berkshire and a long-standing judge for the Henley Youth Festival literary competition, has taught writing workshops, and enjoys appearing at literary festivals. Before becoming an author, Amanda worked at the BBC as a researcher, and studied History of Art at Cambridge University. She lives in a cottage in the middle of the woods in Oxfordshire with her family and a varied assortment of animals.
