{"product_id":"old-soul-9780241682395","title":"Old Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Barker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe woman never goes by the same name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShe never stays in the same place too long.\u003cbr\u003eShe never ages. She never dies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBut those around her do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewhat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e she is, she has already made her next choice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A mesmerising story, brilliantly told' IAN McGUIRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly addictive and completely immersive ...The most propulsive thing I have read all year' LARA WILLIAMS, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSupper Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I was completely swept up ... It continues to haunt and unsettle me, in the very best of ways' EMILY MIDORIKAWA, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Out of the Shadows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Like nothing else I've ever read ... The kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin to flicker out around you; a global, intelligent and ambitious archetypal nightmare' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Cat Person\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Sinister, unnerving and nightmarish. Old Soul will sneak into your dreams and haunt you’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCLAIRE FULLER, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45848197300375,"sku":"9780241682395","price":1139.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780241682395.webp?v=1769297671","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/old-soul-9780241682395","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}