The Farm
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3.8 • 117 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son...
Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes.
Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital.
Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow.
Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Child 44—Tom Rob Smith’s riveting debut novel—made the long list for the Man Booker Prize. In his follow-up—another heart-pounding psychological thriller—a man is caught between his elderly parents when they emerge from their quiet retirement in rural Sweden to fling horrific accusations at each other. Who’s telling the truth? We ripped through The Farm, scared of what we’d discover and loving every minute of it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this superior psychological thriller from Thriller Award winner Smith (Child 44), the narrator, a Londoner known only as Daniel, receives a phone call from his father, who has retired with his wife to a farm in Sweden. The father tells Daniel that his mother is in the hospital. For months, she has been "imagining things terrible, terrible things." Before Daniel can fly to Sweden, his father calls again to inform him that she persuaded the doctors to authorize her discharge and has disappeared. As Daniel struggles to accept that news, his mother phones to announce that she's flying to Heathrow and that everything his father has told him "is a lie." When she arrives, she offers a complex tale to buttress her conviction that she has been plotted against, leaving Daniel uncertain as to whom and what to believe. Smith keeps the reader guessing up to the powerfully effective resolution that's refreshingly devoid of contrivances.
Customer Reviews
Easy read
Easy light reading and good description of Sweden farm living and I could feel transported to life there. A sad story.
A good read. Hard to put down
Relatively short but well written & intriguing.
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
This novel is reasonably engaging but written in a fairly pedestrian way. The author was not adept enough to conceal the plot twist which was disappointing. An easy airport style read.