The Sunshine Man

De: Emma Stonex

Narrado por: Meg Salter, Edward Rowe

‘The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .’

From Emma Stonex, the bestselling author of The Lamplighters, comes The Sunshine Man, a cat and mouse thriller about a revenge plotted over decades.

'A deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner. One of my books of the year' - Lucy Clarke
'Fiendishly gripping' - Rosie Walsh

In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. Birdie leaves for London with a gun and a plan: to find him and make him pay. But there’s another side to the story, and she’s about to enter a world of family lies, worn-out loyalties and long-buried betrayals.

Did Jimmy kill Birdie’s sister, or is he the only one she can really trust? And when the truth is finally revealed, will she choose forgiveness – or retribution?

A heart-stopping new novel of murky shared pasts and a fury-fueled present, The Sunshine Man is a thrilling cat and mouse chase set against the salt-drenched backdrop of England’s south coast, from bestselling author Emma Stonex.

©2025 Emma Stonex (P)2025 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

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 too (Emylia 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 triumph (Jo Harkin, author of The Pretender)

Spellbinding and beautifully written, The Sunshine Man transcends genre. It’s an unbearably tense thriller and a nuanced examination of fractured lives, grief and trauma. Told in glittering and poetic prose with an impeccable sense of place, this is a granular exploration of big questions – revenge, love and redemption. I –––ing loved it! (Nikki May, author of Wahala and This Motherless Land)

A compelling and masterful thriller - with a loaded gun, a car chase and a woman set on revenge - and a compassionate tale of grief, resilience, love and absolution (Susan Fletcher, author of The Night in Question)

This dark, compelling novel of trauma, revenge and damaged lives really got under my skin ... The prose shines with beauty, the characters are vividly drawn and the plot hurtles headlong towards its unforgettable ending (Lucy Diamond)

Gripping, heartbreaking, and one of the most psychologically complex thrillers I've ever read (Caroline Lea, author of The Glass Woman)

Emma Stonex returns with a dark, powerful page-turner - a story full of pain and loneliness but also love and redemption. A very sophisticated and moving psychological thriller (Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake)

Some books grab you by the throat, others by the heart. The Sunshine Man seizes both then refuses to let go. Threaded through with a deep, unfurling sense of dread, yet dazzling in its tenderness and heart, this compelling literary thriller cements Emma Stonex's place as one of our brightest literary talents. A masterful achievement (Hannah Richell, author of The Search Party)

Full of driving tension and rising dread, The Sunshine Man is compelling, moving and totally original. I'll be thinking about it for a long time. (Kate Riordan, author of The Heat Wave)

Imaginative, tender and compelling, Emma Stonex's writing glows from the page. A charged and unforgettable story (A.J. West, author of The Betrayal of Thomas True)