A Good and Happy Child

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name = A Good and Happy Child
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author = Justin Evans
cover_artist = José Guadalupe Posada
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Thriller, Horror, Suspense
publisher = Shaye Areheart Books
release_date = 2007
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 336 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0-307-35122-7
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"A Good and Happy Child" is the debut novel by author Justin Evans.

ummary

Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly agrees.

As he delves into his childhood memories, he begins to recall things he hasn’t thought of in twenty years. Events, people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd, rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The jovial mother who started dating too soon after his father’s death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely, then told him secrets he didn’t want to know. How no one believed this new friend was real and that he was responsible for the bad things that were happening.

Terrified by all that he has forgotten, George struggles to remember what really happened in the months following his father’s death. Were his ominous visions and erratic behavior the product of a grief-stricken child’s overactive imagination (a perfectly natural reaction to the trauma of loss, as his mother insisted)? Or were his father’s colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force, right to look to the supernatural as a means to end George’s suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know. But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering the past becomes the only way George can protect himself–and his young family.

Film adaptation

Variety has reported a project to adapt the film has been set up at Paramount. [ [http://www.cinematical.com/2007/05/13/demon-possession-novel-good-and-happy-child-getting-treatment/] ]

External links

* [http://justinevans.com/ Justin Evans' official website]

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