Lisa St Aubin de Terán
A psychological crime thriller about child abuse
PUBLICATION DATE: 21 NOVEMBER 2024
When police pay a visit to an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads detective John Custer into a murky world of sex crimes and serial killings, of hidden graves and socially impeccable paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer doggedly follows his intuition that there really is something very wrong that needs to be discovered, however cold the trail seems to have become.
Based upon a true story of a bizarre and tragic case of child abuse, The Hobby is a psychological crime thriller, ranging from the fan club of a 1940s child star, through Istanbul and war-torn Burma and Cairo, to 1980s Britain. Custer and his assistant, Sergeant Jolly Campbell, seek to bring justice to the forgotten victims, while themselves going through their own quest for personal redemption.
Lisa St Aubin de Terán
Lisa St Aubin de Terán is the prize-winning author of 20 books, including novels, short stories and nonfiction. She is Anglo-Guyanese, and was born and brought up in London. Aged 16, she married an exiled Venezuelan freedom fighter and landowner. After two years travelling around Italy and France, she moved to the Venezuelan Andes, where she managed her husband’s semi-feudal sugar plantation for seven years. Much of her writing draws on that time and place. And time warps, rural communities, isolation and grace under pressure are still the dominant themes in both her life and work.
On the strength of Keepers of the House, she was chosen as a Best of British Young Novelist in 1982.
After leaving the Andean hacienda, she lived as a perpetual traveller for the next twenty years. Then, in 2004, she settled in north Mozambique, establishing the Teran Foundation to develop community tourism. She lived there until 2021, returning to London with a bag full of manuscripts, including her autobiography Better Broken Than New, and two new novels (soon to be published by Amaurea): The Hobby and Kafka Lodge.
ISBN 978-1-914278-27-3 (hardcover), 234 x 153mm (£19.95, €22.95, $24.95)
ISBN 978-1-914278-29-7 (eBook) (£4.99, €5.99, $6.99)
PUBLICATION DATE: 21 NOVEMBER 2024
“A spellbinding storyteller” (The Listener)
“The author has an enviable narrative gift, and there is something magical about her deployment of it.” (The Guardian)
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