The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Tapa dura

'Vintage King... the quality of the prose is consistently impressive and his trump card is his ability to arouse empathy for the plight of his young heroine' -- Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday 'Moving, gripping. One of his best...A literary home run' -- Mirror 'Utterly compulsive, bears ample witness to King's mastery of his craft' -- Mail on Sunday 'King writing at his compelling best' -- Express on Sunday

"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Trying not to be terrified. Trying not to think that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died. And all because she needed to pee...". This is the story of a girl who gets lost on an outing in the Northeast woods. In her panic to get back on the track, she takes turnings which lead her deeper and deeper into the terrifying woods. With only a small amount of food and water in her knapsack, she begins to give up hope of ever getting out. Alive. The only thing that keeps her going is her Walkman on which she listens avidly to Red Sox baseball games, creating an imaginary friendship with her hero Tom Gordon. And as she struggles for survival and a way out, she realises she's not alone. There's something else in the woods - and it's watching her...