Nanny Dearest
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Publisher Description
“A well-crafted debut . . . horrifying . . . Psychological thrillers fans won’t be disappointed.” —Publishers Weekly
"Unsettling, compelling, elegantly paced . . . A slick, contemporary novel that explores the wispy, nagging memories of childhood.” —Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the Dark
In this compulsively readable novel of domestic suspense, a young woman takes comfort in reconnecting with her childhood nanny, until she starts to uncover secrets the nanny has been holding for twenty years.
Sue Keller is lost. When her father dies suddenly, she's orphaned in her mid-twenties, her mother already long gone. Then Sue meets Annie. It’s been twenty years, but Annie could never forget that face. She was Sue’s live-in nanny at their big house upstate, and she loved Sue like she was her own.
Craving connection and mothering, Sue is only too eager to welcome Annie back into her life; but as they become inseparable once again, Sue starts to uncover the truth about Annie's unsettling time in the Keller house all those years ago, particularly the manner of her departure—or dismissal. At the same time, she begins to grow increasingly alarmed for the safety of the two new charges currently in Annie's care.
Told in alternating points of views—Annie in the mid-'90s and Sue in the present day—this taut novel of suspense will keep readers turning the pages right up to the shocking end.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s tempting to go digging into the past, but this dark thriller suggests that’s probably not the best idea. After losing her father in her midtwenties, Sue is left parentless and struggling emotionally, so she jumps on a chance encounter with her old nanny, Annie, whom she associates with a feeling of stability. Unfortunately, Sue’s idealized vision of her childhood may be a little…off. Nanny Dearest switches between Annie’s story in ’90s upstate New York and Sue’s life in present-day Manhattan, dialing up the suspense and harrowing reveals. Narrators Brittany Pressley and Reba Buhr make us feel the growing tension in our bones, capturing author Flora Collins’ realistically flawed characters with unnerving precision. This is a chilling and absolutely unputdownable thriller about the intriguing, dangerous nature of family secrets.
