The Sunshine Man

Name: The Sunshine Man
Author: Emma Stonex

Emma Stonex

01 May 2025

Imprint: Picador

Synopsis

'Stonex is out to set pulses racing' - The Observer
'An ambitious revenge thriller' - The Guardian
'A deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner' - Lucy Clarke

Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear: Jimmy Maguire - the man who murdered her sister - is out of prison.

She sends her children to school, picks up a gun, and leaves for London with one purpose: to find Jimmy and make him pay.

But there’s another side to this story, and Birdie is about to enter a world of family lies, worn-out loyalties and long-buried betrayals . . .

Gripping, emotional, and charged with tension, The Sunshine Man is a powerful story of reckoning and revenge, set against the haunting beauty of rural Devon, from bestselling author Emma Stonex.

READERS LOVE THE SUNSHINE MAN
'A compelling tight thriller with heart' *****
'Hits you right between the eyes' *****
'Brilliantly written with twists and turns' *****

368 pages

9781529047363

Details

01 May 2025

368 pages

9781529047363

Imprint: Picador

Reviews

A remarkable novel - heart-wrenching, unflinching and deeply compassionate . . . thrilling, and incredibly moving. If you loved The Lamplighters, I guarantee you’ll love The Sunshine Man tooEmylia Hall, author of The Shell House Detectives

Masterful. Not only suspenseful and exquisitely tense but a nuanced, humanely observed portrait of grief and trauma. A triumphJo Harkin, author of The Pretender

The Sunshine Man is a masterful literary thriller . . . A deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner. One of my books of the yearLucy Clarke, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Castaways and One of the Girls

A brilliantly accomplished story of fractured lives and the long-term reverberations of violent crime, The Sunshine Man is both poetic and fiendishly gripping. Stonex's prose is bruising and beautifulRosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call