


They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get.

She lives in Sussex with her family.About the Book In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. Tudor is also the author of A Sliver of Darkness, a collection of short stories. The Drift is her fifth novel and has also been optioned for the screen. Her fourth novel, The Burning Girls, was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection and has been adapted for television by award-winning screenwriter Hans Rosenfeldt (creator of The Bridge and Marcella). All three books are in development for TV. Her second novel, The Taking of Annie Thorne, was also a Sunday Times bestseller as was her third novel, The Other People. Tudor's first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller and sold in over forty countries. Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.Ĭ. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert. Tudor's love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. 'Deliciously creepy with a side order of Eighties nostalgia' Good Housekeeping Read moreĬ. 'There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister, and a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail 'A frightening Stephen King-esque coming-of-age story cum murder mystery' Daily Telegraph, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'There are shades of Stephen King in this very creepy timeslip' Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times SHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & THE STEEL DAGGER, BEST THRILLER AWARD Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. 'WONDERFULLY CREEPY - LIKE A COLD BLADE ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK' LEE CHILD 'IF YOU LIKE MY STUFF, YOU'LL LIKE THIS' STEPHEN KING
